Carry On, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

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Some of these stories also appear in My Man Jeeves (1919)* albeit in a slightly different form. These are the stories contained within Carry on, Jeeves (1925).... Is that a spoiler? Did I just spoil every single Jeeves and Wooster story by outlining the formula?) And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? Immortal rind” is slang for impudence or cheek. Wodehouse also uses “crust” elsewhere to mean the same thing. The OED formerly recorded A.M. “Pitcher” Binstead, one of the illustrious members of the Pelican Club, as being the first to use “immortal rind” in print in 1903; see Something Fresh for a 1901 quotation from George Ade which is now the OED’s earliest citation.

Dahlia’s maiden name was Wooster — thus she is Bertie’s father’s sister. Of course, one could claim that not all Woosters are related. The implication is that Bertie’s hotel is on the respectable right bank of the Seine. Artists would – of course – live on the left bank. Jeeves and Wooster had first appeared in the short story " Extricating Young Gussie", which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1915, and was included in The Man with Two Left Feet. [2] Contents [ edit ] The Crescent saline water was apparently discovered in 1783, and mentioned in 1791 by Dr. Thomas Garnett, according to a 1928 article in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Analyses of these waters continues in modern times; one 1996 publication is abstracted online. It is a little surprising that she has a telephone: telephones remained an expensive luxury item out of the reach of most ordinary people in Britain until at least the 1960s, and were far more common in the USA. Wodehouse may have forgotten about this difference, having lived in the USA for the previous ten years. For the same reason, the five-digit phone number seems unlikely.And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

Right to left, if speaking as an actor; left to right, if speaking as a member of the audience. In a British theatre, the prompter usually sits in the wings of the stage, to the actors’ left. Thus Prompt Side is left and Off Prompt right as seen by the performers. Wodehouse, P. G. (2008) [1925]. Carry On, Jeeves (Reprinteded.). London: Arrow Books. ISBN 978-0099513698.Slang expressions for English pounds sterling. “Quid” is still current, and its origins are obscure; the obsolete “o’goblin” is a short variant of “Jimmy O’Goblin,” rhyming slang for “sovereign” (also obsolete). I crawled off the sofa and opened the door. A kind of darkish sort of respectful Johnnie stood without.