Word: trinian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knickers that approach the knee, a vague navy-blue outer garment called a gym slip and a long-sleeved, high-necked blouse with a frumpy tie-makes her resemble a hockey goalie; at sorriest, a carelessly stuffed knackwurst. Cartoonist Ronald Searle immortalized the getup in his books on "St. Trinian...
...Director Reginald Grenfell), a radio critic for the Observer, and sometime writer for Punch. She was dragooned into a London revue after a party performance. She later collaborated with Wit Stephen (Gamesmanship) Potter on BBC comedies, by 1955 had played outstanding bits in movies (Genevieve, The Belles of St. Trinian's) and her first solo revue in London...
...years ago the first installment, titled Eloise, was a whirlaway bestseller, and this sequel spun into its second printing even before publication. It too is magnificently illustrated by Artist Hilary Knight, who has captured Eloise in a style that evokes British Cartoonist Ronald Searle's "Belles of St. Trinian's" and is best described as cutely lethal...
...uninitiated, a few words of introduction might be necessary. The Bells of St. Trinian's are the inmates of an English girl's school rather hesitantly dominated by Millicent Fritton, a Mistress at least as corrupt as her charges. As she explains to some newcomers to her school, most academies exist to prepare girls to go out into the world. But it is the world which has to be prepared for St. Trinian's. In the encounter that follows, the world, but not the audience, comes off second best...
Verminous Virtuosity. Though the females of his species-the famed belles of St. Trinian's-are perhaps more deadly, molesworth is more refined. It's the difference between the cobra and the roach. Rather than crush a master's skull, this little poobah prefers to nibble at his sanity, and at least in the case of "Sigismund arbuthnot, the mad maths master," nigel has brilliantly succeeded. In general, he has perfected the art of creeping antisocialism, which has been practiced by boys of every land and time but seldom with such verminous virtuosity...