Be-mustached

miss edith n. allen read the humorous essay of the evening, entitled “The Modern Aeneas.” She described the Aeneas of the books, his wanderings, his character, and his grand opinion of himself, and likened him to a be-gloved, be-caned, be-mustached young exquisite who leaves his home in the east to come west and grasp the fortune that he knew is waiting here ready for his hands to seize upon.

The be-mustached guy thrives on work and it was better for him to have that one-inning tune-up rather than be idled both Wednesday and Thursday.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, be-mustached basketball fans parsed through the Eastern Conference finals, while the Enabler ate cheese fries and debated the moral responsibilities of interventionist foreign policy with a neighbor.