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...Cock. The vast machine which now huffed & puffed for British Socialism was a monument to the steam-powered, grandly gambling free enterprise which had made Victorian England rich. It started in the 1780s, when a friend wrote to James Watt about a fellow inventor: "He has mentioned to me a new scheme which ... he is afraid of mentioning to you for fear of you laughing at him. It is no less than drawing carriages upon the road with Steam Engines. ... He says . . . that there is a great deal of Money to be made...
...Cockadoodleodoodle!" After the "unfortunate blight," Thackeray began writing art criticism. His nom de plume, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, became a feared and hated name among Britain's painters. Even when he had become a novelist and was rolling in royalties ("?10,000 - Cock-adoodleodoodle"), he was still "bitten with my old mania...
Common Touch. But it is by his alternately nagging and praising daily bulletins that Christiansen puts his mark on the Ex-Press. Excerpts: "Such a coverage! Such splendour! Such magnificence! From Newell Rogers in Washington to Ralph Campion in Cock Fosters the heart of this paper beats strongly. . . . [But] it hurts when we miss the news.. . . The headline WIFE SITS ON TAIL OF PLANE in the Daily Mail is a better headline than [our] HOLIDAY PLANE IN SEA. . . . Why does the phrase The British taxpayer must foot the bill' appear? . . . Why not 'The taxpayer pays...
...those sllck get-ups for me, the purple dress with matching glasses; that chartreuse number guaranteed to make sober men think they-ve had enough; that low-cut orange one whose method of support Is still uncertain ... One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cock-tall cogiomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...
...Luigi ("The Cock") Longo, who holds the party portfolio for war, is a more traditional type of Communist, a sullen man with deep sunken eyes and a tight, twisted mouth. He commanded Italy's Communist Partisans during World War II. Allied intelligence as well as Italian officials estimate his potential underground army (armed with weapons seized from the Germans) to be 150,000 strong, which is as large as the army allowed the Italian state under the peace treaty...