1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, “I wouldn't marry anyone else if they came to me bringing apes, ivory and peacocks. Tell me what he was like as a boy.†“Oh, much the same as the rest of us.†“Nonsense!†“Except, of course, for rescuing people from burning buildings and saving blue-eyed children from getting squashed by runaway horses.†“He did that a lot?†“Almost daily.â€