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...gratitude rather than perplexity. You would know that "the Empress" was Empress of Blandings, that she was probably the finest sow in Shropshire, that she was the rotundly ridiculous centre of Author Wodehouse's absurdly complicated plot, and that Lord Tilbury-a figure long familiar to addicts of Wodehumor-was, through a curious weakness in his otherwise adamantine character, about to become involved in that plot far beyond his dreams or his patience. Your sense of gratitude would be great because you would suspect, by the characteristic solemnity of its beginning, that the paragraph would end like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobbled Empress | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...excuse for leaving, he invents for himself a-mistress in London to whom he must repair. By chance he selects the name of Mr. Gommery's actress. This mock disclosure precipitates an extremely dull, English-accented farce in the P. G. Wodehouse manner but without the Wodehumor. C. Stafford Dickens is playwright and Gommery. Raymond Walburn is Freddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Wodehumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Tory Tension | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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