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...original five parts is wholly dispensed with; and the eight acts have been compressed into six scenes. Moss has rightly stuck to the main theme of the work. He has pared away the lengthy digressions and the superfluous characters (such as the comic takeoffs on the British statesmen Asquith and Lloyd George...
...favor of such non-U words as greens for vegetables, wealthy for rich, sweet for pudding, and wire for telegram. Graham Greene complained that by Nancy Mitford's exacting standard, Henry James would have to be considered non-U because he once began a letter "Dear Margot Asquith" instead of "Dear Mrs. Asquith." Another reader pointed out that Shakespeare's Richard II was addicted to using the non-U mirror. Sniffed Novelist Mitford: "It is probable that Richard II, like many monarchs, was non-U. As for Henry James ... he was an American...
Doing Something. Only a threat to the existence and prerogatives of the House disturbs its somnolent air. Reform of the Lords, warned Prime Minister Herbert Asquith more than 40 years ago, "brooks no delay"; only last month Queen Elizabeth herself was again promising "further consideration of the composition of the House of Lords," and as usual Everyone admitted that "something" ought to be done. Last week, the government-in the person of the Lords' Tory leader, the Marquis of Salisbury-moved that a committee be appointed to study what powers, if any, the Lords had to compel their members...
...neighborhood streets, or in overseas dominions (which accounted for nearly half of the Knighthoods), there were flashes of individual pride and pleasure as the list was published. Of all "the incongruous duties which our Constitution imposes upon the Prime Minister," mourned Herbert Henry Asquith more than a quarter of a century ago, "there is none, in my experience, more thankless, more irksome and more invidious than the recommendation of honors to the Crown...
...charmed . . . I am going to take this lesson in democracy back to Guatemala and help remove the Communist poison from the minds of our people." ¶ Worrying about the mounting debt of the world's most famous undergraduate debating society and nursery of politicians (e.g., Gladstone, Asquith, Attlee), President Michael Heseltine of the Oxford Union hit upon a scheme to make money: the opening of a new nightclub, located in the Union cellars and fitted out like a Left Bank boite de unit. ¶ Though the U.S. still has more trained engineers than Russia. President John T. Rettaliata...