Word: british
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FLASHMAN: FROM THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1839-1842, edited and arranged by George MacDonald Fraser. But don't believe it for a minute. Though it has fooled several scholars, Flashman is actually an agreeable fictional takeoff on assorted British tales of derring-do in the days of the Empah...
...smashing. The lady's hair was done up in a geisha girl's double bun and her eyes were shadowed to achieve a slight upward slant. The dress, on the other hand, was a frilly white lace affair with a high puffed collar and velvet ribbons -quite British and faintly Victorian. Lord Snowdon took the photograph of his wife sitting in the tall grass of what appeared to be a country meadow (actually part of their Kensington Palace gardens in downtown London), and there was a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek involved. Princess Margaret would soon...
Better, indeed. In half a dozen.American cities this month, British Overseas Airways Corp. began promoting a $350 round-trip air excursion to England that included more than the usual palace-to-pub tour. BOAC's 13-day "The Beautiful Singles of London" tour offered Yankee tourists the added incentive of meeting three "scientifically chosen" British dates at airline-organized cocktail parties. There was even more in store for those who signed...
...Liberal from Cornwall. "BOAC says such a project will earn dollars for Britain, but some might argue that prostitution does the same thing." Kenneth Lewis, a Conservative from Rutland and Stamford, threatened to take the matter before the House of Commons and treat it as an affront to British maidenhood. "A British girl," he thundered, "is perfectly capable of making her own dates-and so are American men." The Sunday Times chided: "There are visions of the flower of English womanhood being sold into lusty American servitude for the benefit of our sordid balance of payments. Poor old BOAC cannot...
Things are quiet now as the British government examines the situation. But just wait until they do something or fail to do anything. The stories of the fighting will be in the Times. Watch the TV for pictures...