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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...
...Poison-Ivied Walls" [Nov. 2]: so St. Trinian's is closed! I, for one, will miss the frantic antics of the little monsters. The "somewhere in England" address of St. Trinian's was Cambridge, and the "model" was the Cambridge and County High School for Girls...
...during the day that these courts were vacant ... so Mr. Searle had ample opportunity to look for ghoulish girls. As a contemporary of Mr. Searle's and an "old girl" of the high school, that knock-kneed, spotty-faced gargoyle wearing glasses, in the chem lab of St. Trinian's [see cut] could quite possibly...
...under a roller, stab their last classmate in gym ("Some little girl didn't hear me say 'unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will be only a word-to be used every time a school window is broken, a classroom wrecked or an underclassman over-hazed. Otherwise, wrote Poet C. Day Lewis in a special dirge, St. Trinian's is gone...
...Cartoonist Searle's horror, St. Trinian's has also become a synonym. He first realized this on the day he read a newspaper account of how three girls in Scotland actually did try to burn down a school. "When he read that," says his wife, "he went absolutely white. I kept praying -please, please, don't let them mention St. Trinian's!" But, of course, the newspapers...