Woosterism

Employers, still influenced by a touch of 1930s Woosterism, liked the idea of recruiting a young graduate who had had a fling or two, even if it was with socialism.

In his earliest appearances he favors an upper-class drawl and inane Bertie Woosterisms masking bursts of insight that solve frustrating cases his stolid friend Inspector Charles Parker cannot fathom.

'Ah, the Julian calendar, yes. What-ho for jolly old Julian.' I winced; he never sounded more Jewish than when he came out with these Woosterisms.