Word: woosters
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...more robust between cloth covers than in the theater, where he is bereft of narrative and description. The evening demonstrates only one astonishment. Edward Duke, the entire cast of Jeeves Takes Charge, is a festival of upper-class twits, from the harrumphing members of The Drones, young Bertie Wooster's club, to the nattering dames, to the one true aristocrat of Wodehouse's canon: the immortal, if tiresome Jeeves...
...despite the enormous wealth he acquired through sales of his stories, Wodehouse remained a man of simple pleasures. Like one of his most famous characters, the lovable bachelor-vagabond Bertie Wooster, happiness for Wodehouse meant comfortable slippers, a good pipe, and a well-mixed highball...
...once to give a public reading, he became so absorbed in his own story that he quite forgot his audience. "By Jove, that's good! I'd no idea," he muttered. "Devilish funny." Millions agreed with him. Bertrand Russell could hardly wait for the next Bertie Wooster novel. Bix Beiderbecke quoted Psmith by the page. Evelyn Waugh, scarcely noted for charitable overstatement, called his colleague "preeminent and undisputed...
Judith Stock Wooster, Ohio...
Merle Martin Wooster, Ohio...