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Lost Bodies. As the bus unloaded at Oxford ("I must ask you not to go astray. We've absolutely no machinery for lost bodies"), the tourists split up into groups, each with its own guide resplendent in colored waistcoat and checked cap. The tourists had lunch at the Golden Cross Inn, saw such sights as the place in the Christ Church library where Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, ended the day with tea and Mozart in an undergraduate room...
...surface; I can get no hold ... at any point whatever. He went on from generalization to generalization . . ." Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell said: "I have never heard from [Churchill] a speech ... so completely lacking in serious argument." As the government barrage ripped into him, Churchill squirmed, slapped his waistcoat, fumbled in his pockets, finally got to his feet, turned and looked behind him. Spellbound, the entire House watched Winnie's antics. Gaitskell broke off his rebuttal. Churchill apologized impishly. Explained the seasoned scene-stealer: "I was only looking for a jujube...
...lacrosse game went, Harvard lost, 12 to 4, to an excellent Williams team boasting an outstanding goalie in diminutive Mickey O'Connell, yellow waistcoat and all. The latter is intended as a target for enemy shots and let legal because O'Connell has his number taped...
Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology. They appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with...
...sharpest dresser of them all according to T & C, "commits the sartorial crime of tying his evening bow behind the points of his wing collar. He also affects the American habit of pressing a crease in his sleeve." Ex-Ambassador Maisky "makes the mistake of fastening his bottom waistcoat button" -a mistake, admits T & C, that might be accounted for by the class-conscious fact that "the leave-it-undone style was created by royalty...