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...plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star and the amiable, gorilla-faced Earl, with the result that the Earl romps around, paying off childhood scores, until he becomes known as the fiend of Hollywood, while the golden-haired child star takes to whiskey and soda and pays calls on cinema queens. But to speak of Wodehouse's plot is like speaking of the plot of a trapeze act, for his characters merely leap from one precarious situation to another, defying time and space, in an exhibition that will please old Wodehouse admirers...
Sighed he: "I am so damned tired. I am going to have a large Scotch & soda." But it was too early for the pub to be open and he had to celebrate on ginger beer...
...more vigor than the tailor's dummy some Europeans uncharitably consider him to be.* The rearming of Helgoland he glossed over as German "peccadillo," adding: "Individual matters of this kind, though they cannot be passed unobserved, should not be raised at the moment"-i. e., not until "Machiavelli-&-soda" has seen what he can do in Berlin...
Arriving in Southampton for a surprise inspection visit to the Nahlin, King Edward watched cases of champagne, Scotch, soda, lime squash and lemon squash being carried aboard. Royal china and plate from the King's own steam yacht Victoria & Albert will be used on the Nahlin. After a brisk look around His Majesty ordered extra beds set up in the library...
...call me 'Excellency' or use my title 'Bey.' Just call me Mr. Youssef." Bay Ridgers soon discovered that Ambassador Troyanovsky serves tea and tinfoil wrapped Soviet candies to almost any caller, that Minister Youssef, although a teetotaler, is good for a Scotch and soda while he vividly describes how he founded the Egyptian consumer co-operatives and forced down food costs for the masses by as much...