Cheerio, Bumbershoot!

So were my wife and I crazy? Further investigations suggested not (or at least not for this particular reason). In 1953 (approximately the year of our birth), Time magazine ran a review of The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan's historical novel about Roman Britain, and was clearly thinking the way we did: ?As an extra dividend, the book is clearly intended for reading as an oblique comment on the British character, and especially on the modern British bureaucracy. Author Duggan seems to suggest that, given a bowler and bumbershoot to go with his tidy, official face, Felix might patter along Downing Street without winning a second glance.? Five years later, the same magazine noted: ?British Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, 66, chugged up the sheer Acropolis, posed?looking not unlike her own fictional Miss Marple with bumbershoot and catchall?beneath the world's most spine-tingling marble slab: the entablature of the Parthenon.?

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