How To Use Wodehouse In A Sentence
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Jeeves' grave and sage philosophy towards booze is encapsulated perfectly at the end of another Wodehouse story.
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Re-reading P G Wodehouse's The Code of the Woosters the other day reminded me of the many words in English which are the negatives of words whose positive forms are now obsolete or rare.
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Literature's most renowned name-steal from sport is probably PG Wodehouse's blatant nick for Bertie Wooster's agelessly enduring manservant.
From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
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But whereas we now also find the latter dated and their humour unappealing, Wodehouse remains in demand.
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There is, finally, a particular resonance about that unclassifiable species of Wodehouse heroine who wears a monocle and sees courtship primarily as a series of knightly tests to be accomplished by her betrothed.
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He is one of the richest characters in the whole of the Wodehouse creation, absolutely rounded and quite without flaw.
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Wodehouse requires him to smuggle pearls across the Atlantic in a Mickey Mouse doll for his betrothed - the only true test of love, as anybody who smuggled pearls in Mickey Mice will know.
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He is not the only actor to impersonate a butler in the Wodehouse canon.
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So, dear lovers of what the beloved Wodehouse character Bertie Wooster calls ‘gaspers’ - don't try to kid yourself about smoking.
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Wodehouse is loved by Indians who loathe Kipling and detest the Raj and all its works.
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Wodehouse once put it, 'never confuse the unusual with the impossible.
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More than 1250 mourners attended Wodehouse's funeral in Edmonton.
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You suspect that on the tee, England's fierce head coach might resemble the character from P G Wodehouse who ‘never spared himself in his efforts to do the ball a violent injury‘.
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The client is an extremely rich businessman with a ‘Russian’ accent rejoicing in the name of PG Wodehouse.
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Frances Donaldson attributes Wodehouse's attitude to the war to an ineradicable immaturity, an inability to feel any emotional response to the events taking place in Flanders.
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I don't know what the original derivation of spongebag was but it was in use in the 1920's in Wodehouse stories as the bag that men and women use to carry bath necessities toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, etc.
"He is the one with the 'L' on his pyjamas and spongebag."
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He was blond and good-looking, if a touch louche: a bit like a minor character out of PG Wodehouse, only with a Dublin accent.
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I know someone who is known as Piggy, for his name initials P.G., guess how P.G. Wodehouse would have reacted to this, by the way he was called Plum by friends.
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Wodehouse's satire of the refined Englishman reinforces the view of Hollywood as a preview of British decline.
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A selection of correspondence from P G Wodehouse realised ￡1,232.
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As far as Roe vs. Wade goes, I'm somewhat ignorant on the inner political workings, but my thought is that McCain is going to find he has what Wodehouse likes to call a "pippin" on his hands if he tries to relegate Palin to high-school graduation speeches once in office.
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Whenever Wodehouse writes about an intimidatingly tall and handsome young woman (usually to contrast her with his heroines, who tend to be small and slight in build), he's parodying the "queenly" heroines of many novels at the time, particularly those of Ethel M. Dell (I've actually read an Ethel M. Dell novel and hope to write about it after the shell-shock wears off).
Wodehouse the Parodist
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Wodehouse remained completely aloof from the tumult of the world, unable to comprehend the cads, schemers and plotters.
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Wodehouse was essentially a fabulist, one who attempts to convey essential truths through fantasy.
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You could, of course, write a thesis about Wodehouse but the endeavour would be like trying to preserve thistledown between sheet glass.
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Bring on the Wodehouse, I say, that sovereign remedy for any mumpish disharmony of mood.
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And, you see, what makes this even more remarkable is that during the dark month of January, my first month with the aunt and uncle, I had fallen into a morbific depression and so had prescribed to myself the cure of reading lots of Wodehouse.
Wake Up, Sir!
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However, many of Wodehouse's novels were first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, and one of his short stories that did appear in the Post, "Honeysuckle Cottage," is a devastating spoof of the kind of gloopy, syrupy romance stories that often appeared in that magazine.
Wodehouse Addendum
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His style was a mixture of wit, sharpness and schoolboy sarcasm, with large shots of Wodehouse and Beachcomber.
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They seem to be a quite extraordinary people; Lord Granville writes from Petersburg that Lady Wodehouse's Russian maid was found eating the contents of one of her ladyship's dressing-table pots - it was castor oil pomatum for the hair!
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His soliloquies on fate and historical accidence, delivered to an overwrought Monty Bodkin, are among the best things that Wodehouse ever wrote.
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Actually, I was quite worried about doing a comic novel, because I'm a massive fan of PG Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh, and I was terrified I was going to lapse into a pastiche of their style.
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Waugh, Graves, Maugham, Wodehouse, Coward: the interwar writer had not really arrived until he had a passport, a boat or train ticket and a chunky brass key to a room in a European capital.
House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review
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Poile, who had grown up on Wodehouse's golfing yarns, discovered that the modern game was not just about irons and niblicks.
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As was so often the case, P.G. Wodehouse reached deep into the heart of the matter: collecting sporting memorabilia requires dedication, a willingness to speculate, a tolerance of risk and, too often, a certain amount of the ‘iron in the soul’ that equips a man to survive uxorial disapproval.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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Comedy tied together "funny" comics and comics more philosophical, ranging from Amis to Wodehouse via Gogol and Mitford.
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As Evelyn Waugh says on the back of all the Penguin editions, ‘Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale.’
