Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge by its content, the typical British reader of the weekly Spectator is a staid, orderly man who carries an umbrella on threatening days, and whose wife has the vicar to tea in the garden. He is likely to say "verb. sap." when he means "a word to the wise," and if he says, "I rather think I shall go sailing tomorrow, D.V.," everyone knows that he means "Deo volente" (God willing...
...religious; you go to church; he plays tennis with the vicar. ¶ I have about me something of the subtle, haunting, mysterious fragrance of the Orient; you rather overdo it, dear; she stinks...
...Baby. The vicar's sermon, said one villager, "set the place on fire." Many a poison-pen victim, who had suffered in silence, thinking that he or she alone had been singled out for attack, rushed to the vicar with his story. Within a fortnight he had several hundred letters to take to the police. Burly Storekeeper Richard Knightly Storm boasted of having got his first 15 years ago: "You felt out in the cold if you hadn't received one." Relieved villagers gave the anonymous writer a jeering name: "The Big Baby...
...days after the vicar's sermon, there were no letters. One woman, who didn't think the blight was over, predicted that they would start again with the next new moon. Last week she got one: "You are a fine one to talk about the full moon affecting anyone as you are a daft bitch whether the moon is full, new or waning. ... If the vicar wasn't so dull he would easily find out who is sending these poison letters...
...vicar, who is now pretty sure he knows who Big Baby is, is not dull, but at week's end he had still not named the poison penman of Robin Hood...