Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public school known as Dunmere, students learn what the self-righteous Headmaster calls "the three Cs: Christianity, the cold bath and cricket." They notably fail to learn a big D: democracy. Even among themselves, these young sons of bishops and colonels and bank directors practice an exquisite snobbishness. A boy's standing depends largely on whether his "pater" has "tons of tin" and what expensive delicacies stock his "grub box." The healthy mind in a healthy body, classic goal of public schools, degenerates into a mens corrupted by smut and a corpus battered by flogging...
...waited for her answer. To this day, halting before a tuft of the plant I press it and it recalls that answer in its fragrance." In "the general security of life . . . 'we fleeted the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world': with tennis and cricket ... dances . . . supper picnics beside the river, return on the ebb with laughter [and] soft choruses muted to a twilight mood and to the rhythm of oars that dipped into pools of phosphorescence [with the] young and fair moving in bevies and clusters on a green lawn in frocks of sprigged muslin...
...general who, when he wants to see his corps commanders, goes to their headquarters. And if they happen to be busy with their own division commanders, he waits until they get through. Although he despises traffic jams, he never allows his driver to sound his siren. He likes cricket, maps, horses, detective stories, dislikes paper work and people who chew gum, has no interest in music or art. A bachelor, he lives with a brother in Sussex when he is in England...
...Crises. Today, says Noel Busch, the President is, if not quite in top form, still on his game. "Polite and assured, full of seasoned stamina and lively as a cricket, he seems still quite ready to enjoy a series of new and even-more-exciting crises. Sitting with a caller in his upstairs study he sometimes pushes his freewheeling chair back from his cluttered desk and sits still for a minute chewing reflectively on the tip of his cigaret holder. At such moments the deep lines in Roosevelt's face suggest that he is listening to some sound that...
Last year Leary Constantine, a burly West Indian cricket star, was tossed out of London's Imperial Hotel with the explanation: "We don't want Negroes here." He sued. Last fortnight the hotelkeeper told a British court that his house was full of Americans when Constantine arrived, argued that color prejudice among his U.S. guests justified his action. Last week the court awarded Constantine five guineas ($21), the maximum permitted under British law for breach of contract.' But the money was immaterial to Leary Constantine. He was satisfied with the ruling that Britons should...