Word: punches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TREASURE SHIP-Scribners ($2.50). "The usual rabble of fairy godmothers", armored knights, rubicund policemen, aunts, bears, sponge cake and "the biggest giant that ever gianted" infest this compendium. It is entirely concocted by British authors-Sir James M. Barrie, P. G. Wodehouse, A. P. ("Punch") Herbert, Walter de la Mare, Hilaire Belloc, Algernon Blackwood, Cynthia Asquith (the editress) and many another...
...business-like workroom devoid of all "arty" furnishings. Sitting at his drawing board with his round, glittering spectacles and clean-shaven ascetic countenance, he looks very much like a village deacon, gnome-like brow, repository of his inspiration and technique, is revealing feature. Years ago drew political cartoons for Punch and The Graphic. Lately he been called "court painter to King Oberon and Queen Titania...
WINNIE-THE-POOH-A. A. Milne -Dutton ($2). Another man A lately made grown-ups furtive Author Alan Alexander Milne of Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, Sussex (not far from Artist Rackham's beech tree). He used to be (1906-14) an editor of Punch. He fought all through the War and got back safely to tell stories to his son, Christopher Robin, who encouragred his father (by asking for more) to write a book of jingles called When We Were Very Young (1924). Writing things was nothing new for Author Milne. He had had plays of his played both sides...
Moving behind green and yellow windowshades drawn against the incandescence of the sun, doing business, after the siesta, over a glass of rum-punch and a long pale cigar, the gentlemen of Havana, Cuba, deported themselves last week as usual. They came in at dusk from their offices and clubs, from exercise in fencing-school and walks on the Prado; they thought comfortably that it was still some time before they must start dressing for dinner, and noticed with astonishment the blackness of the air. Was there going to be a storm, they wondered...
Uncle George Clay is the central figure, a patriarchal country doctor of many opinions and few patients, the patron saint of practical joking, as prodigal of his considerable wit and scholarship as he is of his money. He sits in his big chair playing with his "chilluns," drinking punch, arguing temperance, theology, education; jesting coarsely, slyly, uproariously; secretly planning, and executing, gruff generosities...