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"A new H. Allen Smith with the publication of this hilarious--and penetrating--account of his recent trip to London. The author has come a long way since he penned that never-to-be-forgotten phrase, "she was barefoot up to her chin." This volume is ample evidence that Smith has finally arrived--a full-fledged, honest-to-gawd, 100-watt literary light. Smith--whom Fred Allen once called "the screwball's Boswell"--faced with the grim realization that he was vulgar, raucous, smug, uncouth, boorish, and bombastic, decided to journey to London to learn how to become urbane, courtly, and suave. He wanted people to say, "He's nice." So he set out in company with his wife, the slightly disenchanted Mistress Nelle, for that mecca of gentility and decorum beside the Thames. They proceeded to delve systematically into the language, the customs, the history, and the culchuh of the city. Their findings, with copious editorial footnotes and an indispensable English-American glossary, have all been meticulously set down. Some of them are quite outrageous."--From dust jacket flap.
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