Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.

‘He... he made me cry, sir, and I was too embarrassed to come in blubbing, so I went and hid in the music-room until I felt better.’ This was all terribly unfair on poor old Biffin, whom Adrian rather adored for his snowy hair and perpetual air of benign astonishment. And ‘blubbing’... Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. Nineteen-twenties schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

[…] not all Chicago Negroes were exactly pining away for integration. Certainly the Black Muslims, with their passion for a Negro apartheid, were championing a separatist movement that practically outsegregated the segregationists.

anime companies at their board meetings trying to decide which sport to base their fujobait anime series next [screenshot of the sport selection menu from Wii Sports Resort]