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Hugo Pott was too successful too soon. Young Englishman of low beginnings but with a face that might have been his fortune, he had made money by writing a succession of theatrical hits.* London lionized him nearly to death: he never got enough sleep, was worn out by the continuous effort to be nice to everybody, not to let his work interfere with his social engagements. The story opens with his departure into the country for a weekend in no sense a vacation, for Hugo knew exactly why he had been asked, what person he was expected to amuse...
...average Englishman of public school or university training, on the other hand, while highly pessimistic, is but little disposed to question the soundness of the established order into which he was born. The Church, the State, the public school, the university, while not considered perfect, are not generally within the list of things to be blamed for existing imperfections in English society. He complacently places them at the head of the list of things which "have made us what we are"; and does not dream too eagerly of those latent forces which if developed would make us what we might...
...spite of his name (he pronounces it Jer-HAR-di) he is an Englishman whose ancestors were first Italian, then German. He long spoke English with a Russian intonation, for Russian was his first language. He was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), because his father ran a cotton mill there. The Gerhardi children were naturally polyglottal; they learned Russian and German from their nurses, French in school, English from their parents. Their Fraulein "used to take the five of us for walks and she dressed us so warmly, tying woolen hoods over our heads, that by the time the fifth...
...Advices from America indicate a serious state of affairs. . . . This therefore appears a favorable moment to sett dollar securities and bring back the money to this country. ... In existing world conditions, this is the safest place for the Englishman to keep his money...
...haired young players played four black-haired ones. Three of the fair-haireds?Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., John Hope Doeg and George Martin Lott Jr.?beat Bell, Francis Xavier Shields and John Van Ryn, respectively. The only dark-haired player in the semi-finals was also the only Englishman in the tournament, Frederick J. Perry, onetime ping-pong champion and No. 2 singles player on the British Davis Cup team. His semi-final match with Vines was generally regarded as the one which would decide the championship. Vines won, after losing the first two sets and breaking two rackets...