This is part of an ongoing effort by the members of the Blandings Yahoo! Group to document references, allusions, quotations, etc. Right Ho, Jeeves was originally annotated by Dan last name unknown aka Worplesdon. The notes have been somewhat reformatted and substantially extended by others, notably Neil Midkiff [NM], but credit goes to Dan for his original efforts, even while we bear the blame for errors of fact or interpretation.
It was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post , the Grand Magazine , and the Yorkshire Weekly Post prior to book publication; see this page for details of serial appearances. These annotations and their page numbers relate to the β Penguin paperback, in which the text covers pp.
Literally, wait while a telephone conversation is temporarily interrupted; figuratively, be patient during the following digression. Southern French city renowned for tourism, nightlife, and gambling. Now chiefly known for its film festival, begun in A waist-length fitted jacket, originally part of a military dress uniform, worn at formal dinners and the like; typically made with brass buttons. White mess jackets were briefly in fashion in the early s for civilian semiformal dress in warm-climate resorts such as Palm Beach, Florida; more at this link.
The image at right is actor Clark Gable in just such a jacket. Similar to water-skiing but uses a single, wide board: the style at that time. Water-skiing is done with one or two skis or, sometimes, barefooted. The fashion for sun tanning had only arisen in the s; earlier, the upper classes had avoided the sun, thinking that a brown skin was the mark of the laboring classes.
Boat trains to Portsmouth, however, for ocean journeys would depart from Waterloo station. The American edition of this book used the name Brinkley Manor for her country house, apparently believing that US readers would misunderstand Court to be something royal. Worcestershire is on the order of miles west-northwest of London, as Aunt Dahlia notes in one of the telegrams of Chapter 6 p.
