A prep (junior) school in Oxford, known improbably as the Dragon, had since the 1920s named one of its boarding houses Gunga Din after the character in Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem. Last month the ...

Three generations of our family were served well by a non-human member. He was named Gunga Din after a faithful servant in a Rudyard Kipling tale. Gunga, a 1931 Model A Ford Roadster, was a gift to my ...

Last Sunday evening I had one of the more remarkable telephone conversations of my life. At first I simply heard a man’s cultured voice, with a smooth and soft foreign accent, very politely say, ...

In 1947, a V-twin Vincent with a clapped-out, rattling engine was turned over to the British motorcycle company's development department to serve as a test hack for go-faster bits, which rolled open ...

I can’t pretend particular perspective or even insight into Carol Thatcher’s use of the word “gollywog”. Indeed, I haven’t even heard it deployed in the last decade or more. The gollywog is long since ...