Word: stilton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board meetings"), twelve-year-old Hon. Edwin Worplesdon (a Boy Scout "who makes you feel that what this country wants is somebody like King Herod"), "Boko" Fittleworth ("a cross between a comedy juggler and a parrot that has been dragged through a hedge backwards"), G. D'Arcy ("Stilton") Cheesewright ("a bloke of furtive aspect"), and Lady Florence Craye ("one of those intellectual girls . . . who are unable to see a male soul without wanting to get behind it and shove"). The plot is an intricate counterpoint of love-at-first-sight, financial skullduggery in shipping circles, and Berty...
...rude shock is Sir Stilton Byles. In stead of expensive sympathy, Lady Fanny gets from him one stinging slap after an other, including the flat statement that her "love-days" are over. As for the spectre of Mr. Skeffington, "Lay him," says Sir Stilton. "If he haunts you, he must be laid. . . . Make friends with Job. See him often. Ask him to dinner. Lay him, in fact...
...after his seventh infidelity, and to whose still worshipful settlement she owed 22 years of delicious freedom. Since her illness last autumn, Fanny has found his apparition continually turning up, especially at breakfast. After crying over her grapefruit, Fanny decides this morning to consult a Harley Street specialist, Sir Stilton Byles...