“A fantod when it foamed”
From Robertson Davies’s The Manticore.
Wealth, illusion, corruption
From Robertson Davies’s The Manticore.
“The socks-shorts moment”
From Robertson Davies’s The Manticore.
“The intrepid Orph”
Dunstan Ramsay recalls Orpheus Wettenhall, lawyer and sportsman — “quite the most dedicated sportsman I have ever known.”
“A designer and a manufacturer”
From Robertson Davies, Fifth Business. Boy Staunton, sugar magnate, president and managing director of Alpha Corporation, praises the Reverend George Maldon Leadbeater, “a great prophet from a fashionable New York church.”
“Like a duck to water”
From Robertson Davies, Fifth Business.
“Visible branch establishments”
From Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business.
“Fellows of the first importance”
From Robertson Davies, Fifth Business.