Strawhatted

Now he could take in particular groups—the policeman’s argument with a tram driver that grew into a crowd of gesticulating, shouting onlookers, the occasional Anglo Indian returning to England stopped by the Arab carpet merchant or the strawhatted, over-toothed tout, the jostling group of bourgeoises buying from the outside stalls of the Bon Marché.

Then three gum-chewing, strawhatted, dress-suited gangsters emerge from an oversize limousine and engage Albers in a full-scale gun battle.

He was forever playing the bespectacled, strawhatted, bound-to-succeed American boy, garbed in bargain-basement suit.