Piccadilly Jim

by P.G. Wodehouse

Gn 8

John McGraw 1873-1934 baseball player and manager 1902-1932 of New York Giants nicknamed "Little Napoleon"

from Hamlet soliloquy 3.1.62 To be, or not to be

amende honourable A mode of punishment in France. The offender, barefoot and stripped to his shirt, is led into a church with a torch in his hand and a rope around his neck held by the executioner. On his knees, he begs the pardon of God, his king and his country. Now denotes satisfactory appology or reparation

National Sporting Club founded in 1891 in London established boxing in UK

from Home Sweet Home by John Howard Payne 1791-1852 Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there Which seek thro' the world, is ne'er met elsewhere Home! Home! Sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home There's no place like home! An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again The birds singing gaily that came at my call And gave me the peace of mind dearer than all Home, home, sweet, sweet home There's no place like home, there's no place like home!

Lamb's Club Oldest theatrical organization in the US Social club for actors, songwriters and others interested in the theatre founded in 1874, incorporated in 1877

Acts of the Apostles 9 Road to Damascus

Christy Mathewson 1880-1925 pitcher pitched for the New York Giants 1900-1916 among most dominant pitchers in history

souper

Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 30 Consideration like an Angell came, And whipt th' offending Adam out of him.

Thomas Paine 1737-1809 The American Crisis 1776

face

You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.

from The Battle of Blenheim by Robert Southey 1774-1843

novel by James Rice and Walter Besant published in 1878

An empty stomach breeds imagination.

Elisha 2K 2:24 Two she-bears savaged 42 boys who mocked Elisha

from Breathes there the man Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832

from The Lay of the Last Minstrel Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832

Breathes there the man

Baal

you should be awfully careful.

Lillian Russel 1860-1922

William Howard Taft 1857-1930 27th President of US 1909-1913 Chief Justice 1921-1930

William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925 politician from populist wing of Democratic Party, pacifist, Democratic candidate for presidency in 1896, 1900 and 1908

Philippi."

snipe."

Odysseus's dog recognizes him, and then dies, when he returns after 20 years in The Odyssey

poetic device

corpse

Brutus

stertorously noisy and laboured stentor a person with a powerful voice

Potter

"Isch,"

Corot

Canaletto.

I felt that we should get along quite well and be as happy as most people are. That seemed as near perfection as one could expect to get nowadays, so—well, that's how it was."

Larry Doyle

second baseman for New York Giants 1907-1916, 1918-1920 b1886 d 1974

agley

Hundreds,

shadow of the valley of death

You're a woman, and you don't know what it is to go five years without seeing a ball game; but take it from me it's more than any real fan can stand. It nearly killed me, and I'm not going to risk it again.

We fell out, my wife and I'?