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...miles, from England, around the Cape of Good Hope, and up the Persian Gulf to Teheran. But the gift was apparently worth the bother. The Shah was so delighted with it that he gave himself a new title in its honor: "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Actually, by the time the Shah got his set, there were already hundreds of lords & masters of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (including George III and George Washington*), and since then, hundreds of thousands more have been added. Sets have found their way into cottages and castles, to Little America with Admiral Byrd, to Labrador with Sir Wilfred Grenfell, to homes, schools and libraries all over the world. In its 182 years, "EB" has become almost a synonym for knowledge, a roving storehouse of facts that anyone can go to, and that can speak with authority on almost any subject, from...
...gentlemen." To these gentlemen, California was "a large country of the West Indies," a toothache could be cured by "laxatives of manna and cassia dissolved in asses' milk," and tobacco could dry up the brain to "a little black lump." Later, as knowledge grew and changed, the Encyclopaedia Britannica had to grow and change with...
Cold Air. "The problem is to project yourself as a person," explained dynamic Bill Benton, who owns Muzak, runs the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and as an Assistant Secretary of State once directed the Voice of America. He hired a helicopter, plastered a big sign on it: "Here's Bill Benton," and went hopping about the state like a man on an aerial pogo stick. A leather-chair type gladhander, he strove for the common touch. At country fairs, he handed out windshield stickers and buttons, told the crowd: "I will say for you ladies that...
...looked in Encyclopedia Britannica, Webster's unabridged dictionary, Thrall's Handbook to Literature, the Oxford Dictionary, and several other smaller references, to no avail. What does clerihew mean...