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Habit. In Doncaster, England, nine-year-old George Cole, discharged from a hospital after treatment for a broken arm, plunged happily into a cricket match, landed back in the hospital a few hours later with a fractured skull...
...touch of cloud, wind and rain to make it true to England. Into the green expanse spilled some 60,000 Britons (at 50? for the general public, 30? for Conservative Party members). For their entertainment there were bowling greens, tea tents, puppet shows, acrobats, bicycle races and, of course, cricket. For their inspiration there was Winston Churchill. Before the day was done, the 60,000 had heard the best the Tories had to offer; for many that was obviously not good enough...
Also on the speaker's platform sat about 50 of Oxfordshire's leading Tories-solid, well-fixed businessmen, country gentlemen and their ladies. Fifty or so of the lesser elect were allowed to sit on two rows of steps around the portico. Facing the platform, on the cricket green, was a roped enclosure with some 200 chairs. There sat the remainder of the party committeemen, their families, and others of the locally privileged...
...outshouting of Smith, which is: is it a denial of free speech for the audience to be rather louder than the man who is addressing it? Precedent is altogether in favor of the right to boo; hissing-down is a hoary Parliamentary tradition; if it appears indecorous, not cricket, or "rowdy," as your editorialist put it, pray recall that generations of English Lords have been experts at all manner of sibilances and razzberries. The demonstration was not really rowdy anyway: it was incredibly well-organized, although motivated by genuine indignation: nobody got hit; nobody said anything stronger than "drat...
...nearly 507 years old; it was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but Old Etonians were too busy in wartime 1940 to celebrate. *Who probably never said in so many words that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." There were no organized cricket or football playing fields in Wellington's day. He did say: "I really believe I owe my state of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden [of Eton...