Word: stoat
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...Author. Evelyn Waugh looks deceptively like Alice's White Rabbit dressed up for the party, but his writing is astutely stoat-like. His father is chairman of Chapman & Hall, London publishing firm. Evelyn went to Oxford, then followed his older brother into authorship. At Oxford he read history, dabbled in art. Alec Waugh had made a precocious splash with The Loom of Youth (1917); Evelyn obliterated the ripples with Decline & Fall. Now at 31, one of the smartest of London's smart young literary men, he has followed the fashion of his set by 1) getting a divorce...
...essay on "The Yard" by R. A. Stoat '29 was agreed upon by several to be the most successful in making a newcomer feel the atmosphere of the University, which clings most perceptibly about the original College buildings...
...little figure, spry as a stoat, in grey flannel trousers, white sleeveless sweater, bobbed this way and that, swung his Bright arm flail-fashion, tried to make his legs into springs. It was the Prince of Wales. He was trying for the amateur squash racquets championship of England. His opponent was one T. Bevan of the Guards. The scene was the Bath Club, London. How was he doing, this agile prince? His service was clever, his backhand singularly strong. Now and then he said something aloud in a voice at once fierce and hearty. "Well played." He said that over...