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...ever since the war started-the fact that one may, with propriety, use any means of killing an enemy airman as long as he is still in his plane, but if he is forced to land, as soon as he touches the ground it's not cricket to shoot him even though he may just have bombed to eternity a few hundred men, women and children...
Random Sowing. Bombs and bullets do strange things when dropped and fired at random. In Brighton an army eleven was playing cricket against the local police. Lieut. G. W. Wood was bowling when a bomb hit the playing green. "I found myself blown some distance away," he said. The chief constable, waiting to bat, threw himself down and an iron girder fell across his neck...
...Polish magazine commissioned Topolski to draw the ceremonies of King George V's Silver Jubilee. Topolski was so fascinated by such English institutions as pubs, the Derby and the Eton & Harrow cricket match that he stayed on, published a book of satirical drawings appreciatively lampooning Britain's pomps and humors. With the enthusiastic support of famed British Painter Augustus Edwin John, London's ultra-conservative Victoria & Albert Museum purchased three Topolski drawings. Only one member of the Museum's committee objected-on the ground that they were the work of a too young foreigner. The committeeman...
Tough and wiry, he never looks quite well. In the blazer which he puts on to avoid the saluting problem when he drifts around to a cricket match at Cairo's Gezira Club, he looks something like a pale, thin gremlin. His appearance worries his friends. Lord Trenchard, Marshal of the whole R.A.F., on a visit to Middle East headquarters kept asking him: "Are you all right, Arthur...
...their strange language, which is Semitic dashed with the flavors of Europe, they whispered in their cafés while the outrageous Englishmen bounded up & down the narrow, stepped streets of Valletta, sweated at rugger, cricket, swam in the surf. Though there was never any outburst (the warm, damp sirocco was too enervating and the Maltese were too polite), neither did there burn in Britain's amber jewel any flame of devotion to the King. Not even when, in 1921, his Majesty granted self rule (within limits). The Governors and the governed lived in separate worlds, while many...