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...photograph, could be put into albums. They bought engravings of London scenes, of romantic ruins, of exotic places they had seen on their travels, and of their own stately homes. This led to a longing for original drawings, which in turn gave way to a yearning for color. An Englishman produced a paper treated to withstand innumerable washings and spongings. With the demand so great and with new materials at hand, the watercolor became not only good art but also good business. Though the Royal Academy was slow to accept it, the public was enchanted...
Britain: Lax. Why should a doctor-as well as six other persons-die of smallpox in the country that for more than 160 years has known the techniques of vaccination devised by Englishman Edward Jenner? The answer is that Britain has let down its legal guard against smallpox. In 1948 the country's compulsory vaccination law, attacked as infringing an Englishman's freedom and as being unnecessary as well, was repealed. But Britain's immunity had depended mainly on the duration of a steamship passage from India (heart of the world's greatest smallpox reservoir...
...book offers help on the more recherché crimes-dacoity ("armed robbery by five or more persons") or embracery (an attempt to corrupt or influence juries). It dallies in wordplay, both criminal and legal. An Englishman kicked off his boots on the gallows to disprove his mother's prophecy that he would die in them; a British judge, asked why he dubbed a certain barrister "Necessity," answered: "Because he knows no law." It corrects popular misconceptions: Bertillon, far from creating fingerprint identifications, was skeptical of their value. It shows how greatly writers can misconceive: Conan Doyle protested that developing...
...hell," ask many Britons, "should we fight for the Germans?" This corner-pub view of the Berlin crisis is shared by an overwhelming majority, according to Britain's Gallup poll. Only one Englishman in eight believes that Berlin is worth a nuclear war; 81% put their faith in a summit meeting. Only 3% of all Britons think they have a good chance to live through all-out nuclear war. To the pollsters' loaded question, "Would you rather be Red than dead?", 31% plumped for Red, while 21% opted for nuclear war in preference to Communist subjugation; the other...
...desert raider in flowing white burnoose known as Lawrence of Arabia. Here was a pint-sized Oxford archaeologist who could outride the fiercest Bedouin warrior, a galloping ghost who had blown up 79 bridges along the Turkish-held Hejaz Railway (and mourned he had not made it 80), an Englishman hailed by the Arabs as El Aurens, who in 2½ years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about to be crowned king of Syria, Lawrence disappeared as suddenly...