Wodehouse in a sentence

The Wodehouse fortune was built up over centuries but, through high-living and trips to divorce courts, much of it was frittered away by Mr Wodehouse's father.

For such innocents of Wodehouse, one of the most entertaining writers and possibly the funniest in the history of the English l., the idea of his prose of a few “outdated” words may seem trivial.

He is obsessed with submarine cables, PG Wodehouse, and King Lear adaptations.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide is less a cult classic than a cult (imagine PG Wodehouse in space), but the enduring pop-cultural appeal of this series stems from something deeper than its intergalactic wit.

This column was written collaboratively by some of the most recognizable authors of the era, such as P.G. Wodehouse, along with many others.

Wodehouse wrote at least one novel while a prisoner in an internment camp in Nazi-occupied territory while Searle produced over 300 sketches of his fellow PoWs in Changi camp in Singapore and working on the Thai-Burma railway.

Just like the variations in the English language used by say Ernest Hemingway and Oscar Wilde and P.G. Wodehouse, we can find clear differences in the Sanskrit used by Jayadeva, Muthuswamy Dikshitar, Kalidasa, Adi Sankara and Maharaja Swati Tirunal.

Other apt entries from the Wodehouse lexicon I’ve lovingly borrowed over the years: awash; lathered; illuminated; ossified; pie-eyed; polluted; primed; stewed; stinko; squiffy; tanked and woozled.

So maybe we should just sometimes read PG Wodehouse and watch or Victoria Wood videos, to remind ourselves that lightness and jollity can still exist in the world.

Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy.

But then Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern are my favorite indoor sport.

He accused The Ministry of Information of exaggerating Wodehouse's actions for propaganda purposes.

His 1945 essay In Defense of P.G. Wodehouse contains an amusing assessment of his writing and also argues that his broadcasts from Germany (during the war) did not really make him a traitor.

Lady!, with lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse.

Moffett, Fazio, Wodehouse, pp. 62-64 Public buildings became "dignified and gracious structures", and were sited so that they related to each other architecturally.

One critic wrote, "the lyrics alone are enough to drive anyone but P. G. Wodehouse into retirement", but others dismissed the songs as "pleasant" and "not an outstanding hit song in the show".

P. G. Wodehouse published his first collection of comical stories about valet Jeeves in 1917.

Similarly, P.G. Wodehouse was hailed by The Times as a "comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce" for his own acclaimed wordplay.

The British humorist, lyricist and librettist P. G. Wodehouse joined the Princess team in 1917, adding his skill as a lyricist to the succeeding shows.

The character Psmith in the novels of P. G. Wodehouse is considered a dandy, both physically and intellectually.