The book interrogates questions of social space illuminating national identity, gender, race, and social status during the transwar period from the 1920s until 1950s, including the interwar, wartime, Allied Occupation, and early Cold War periods.

Don't try getting out of our dinner party. You're coming!

Bonamy took up a bill for a hunting-crop.

The 'perfect fluid' which Lord Kelvin desiderated, is an instance that scientists are on the outlook for something that will serve as a Newton's apple to lead them to the larger truth which urges birth from their instincts of faith.