Dally had a running battle with the referee, who accused him of kneeing an opponent — though, given a punch was enough to earn a send-off, perhaps the official was unsure of what he saw as Dally was not asked to leave the field.

I'll get it, she said. I promised your mother I'd keep an eye on you. Yeah, right, Ronnie thought, you and the Gallo Brothers.

Coordinate term: recitalist

In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish—notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction.