1977 J. Waring Hot Air 12: The Mink and Manure set of Johannesburg might seem a trifle nouveau riche to the Constantia and Bishopscourt dwellers.at mink and manure belt, n.
1977 J. Waring Hot Air 26: We step into our Cadillacs [...] and sweep off in our black fishbowls. [...] The Cadillacs, enormous cars, attract too much attention. So when you draw up at a robot [...] people peer into the ‘fishbowl’.at fish-bowl, n.
1977 J. Waring Hot Air 102: The char (her staff!) and I cleaned out the dirt of centuries from under carpets.at char, n.1
1977 J. Waring Hot Air 24: Occasionally disaster strikes, as when a Minister’s wife and the wife of an Administrator found themselves in identical frocks. ‘Wat ’n gemors!’.at gemors, n.