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That the gentleman in the dark green Trilby hat knew his way about was evident : he wasted no time in studying ... Si quick was he that a Boy Scout scarcely had time to sidle up and run his finger and eye down the time-table that hung ...

Matzo ball memories

Trade, steep enough for us to have to sell off, in a hurry, the Tudor-ish villa by the sea.

So we said so long to the half-timbered Jews of the Essex littoral in their gold-buttoned blazers and weekend convertibles, to the cliff walk with the gorse bushes where cheeky Jewish dachshunds sniffed gentile retrievers, to the sunken rusticated garden with its winsome stone cupid and heavily composted gardener Bill, who, pipe clenched between his shag-stained teeth, gruntingly tended the antirrhinums; farewell to the matronly house help to whose apron clung a faint but unmistakable whiff of transgressive bacon; toodle-oo to the walnut-fascia Rover, to the loud parties where in front of innumerable uncles and aunts come down from London, Dad would shamelessly do his Jack Buchanan soft-shoe shuffle and tell the odd off-colour Max Miller joke; shalom to all that and hello to a hill of pebble-dash semis in NW11.

My mother Trudie, in shock, railed at my pa for his commercial failings, invoking Wilkins Micawber a good deal. When he couldn’t take any more, Arthur would march off down the hill, coming home slightly tiddly, playing worryingly with the soup noodles at supper.

Source: Financial Times

The Little Deer: Hats hats hats

by noreply@blogger.com (thelittledeer)

I'm currently in the process of trying to find a hat that actually suits me - I mean of course I have a few knitted bobble hats that I tend to throw on during a bad hair day (in fact i'm wearing a green bobble hat right now) but i've been searching for a suitable bowler/trilby hat for a while now. I just want one that doesn't make my head look ridiculous and it's proving to be much more difficult than it should be!

Source: The Little Deer: Hats hats hats

Trilby Hat boys News

Matzo ball memories

Financial Times - Jan 01, 1970

I was happy to be a Brylcreem boy, a jiving Jew of the Green, from my gleaming winkle-pickers to the white knitted ties and the snap-brim trilby, worn with an attitude on the way to shul. Mind you, I didn't want to be in the company of the frum,

Mystery of longest-running play set to entrap Timaru

Timaru Herald - Jan 01, 1970

"Memories of my own childhood are all wrapped up in this era: the big house, the manners of the time of gentlemen rising when a lady entered the room, my father's trilby hat. I adore my cast; they have worked very hard, as have the brilliant backstage

Style & Identity in Do the Right Thing

Clothes on Film - Jan 01, 1970

Take for example the Greek chorus-like corner boys' muted, light aerated shirts and hats – the casualwear of a different generation – which serve to accentuate the blazing orange-red of the wall behind them. In addition to the colourful tableaus

Local author weaves gripping tale

StarPhoenix - Jan 01, 1970

Seventeen-year-old Amy Finch (aka Bird) is dissatisfied in her long-term relationship with Griffin, the boy next door. Bird's physical fling with Pete, a consummate bad boy, is the catalyst for change, but what ensues is both a cautionary tale and a