Word: raingo
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Story.* Sam Raingo, sly master of chicane, pensively retired millionaire, is called to London by the comrade of his homely boyhood in the north of England, Andy Clyth. It is 1918. Silver-haired Andy, actor, poet, jealous but genial friend, is Prime Minister and, since the War is going well, " the greatest man in the world." For years he has snubbed Sam Raingo politically. Now he needs him to manage the Ministry of Records, which is to say, British propaganda at home and abroad. Over a breakfast in No. 10 Downing St. an adroit bluffing match...
...Channel, but that is a soldiers' affair. In the warrens of Whitehall there is the war of the ministries and the boys who have played it for years are annoyed at having to let newcomers-the "mushroom" ministers-participate. Least of all are they pleased to admit Sam Raingo. His wealth and his familiarity with Andy Clyth are against him. Andy having been obliged to bring Sam into the game, would not teach him the rules even if he could afford to politically...
...melancholia. Yet they have happy moments together. She is a refuge from the thoughts with which he paces the Embankment; from the ignominy of moments when he, a Minister, has nothing to do; from the whole importunate, crazy world in which he, tired, lonely, and rather fat old Sam Raingo, must play so exhausting a role...
...genius shy of formality, making hash of what is conventionally expected of it in the way of dramatic climax, contributing richly at moments when reader and characters are least expectant. Who will may hunt for traces of Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe in Andy Clyth and Sam Raingo but the wealth of this book lies in the subtle asides of the two fictitious figures and in the host of minor characters that surrounds them: Sam's dour man-of-all-work, Wrenkin; Andy's idolized, pious old mother; Sam's business factotum, Swetnam; a mystical middle-aged...
...LORD RAINGO,-Arnold Bennett-Doran...