Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. With a chuckle rather than a sneer, a band of young Englishmen keep their eyes on the oddball and carry a big slapstick in this hilarious revue...
...middle of the magazine contains six pages of drawings by S.A. Pizer and W.S. Donnell caricaturing various Englishmen as Mods and Rockers. It's the kind of feature you can see they spent a lot of time on and you really want to find amusing. But what's funny about the Duke of Windsor's being "something of a Mod" while "the Duchess is another story?" Is it simply that for either of them to be either a Rocker or a Mod is ludicrous? Some personal quirks hinted at? Anyway...
...History. . ." In London William Pitt was one of the few men who shared the clarity of Adams' vision; in opposing the Boston Port Bill, one of the Coercive Acts, he prophesied that "if that mad and cruel measure should be pushed. . . England has seen her best days." Most Englishmen disagreed: "They will be Lyons whilst we are Lambs, but if we take the resolute part they will undoubtedly prove very meek." The "resolute part" was taken, making the Revolution inevitable...
...pageantry and intrigue. From Piazza San Marco to the Rialto, it was a gaudy blur of masquers and courtesans, actors, singers and sightseers. As the sunny antithesis of London, and most colorful way-point of the Grand Tour, Casanova's Venice even then drew 30,000 Englishmen a year. So many top-chop Londoners returned with Canaletto's etchings and oil paintings that an Englishwoman visiting the city for the first time in 1785 wrote that the artist's "views of this town are most scrupulously exact, to such a degree that we knew all the famous...
Founded by Englishmen William Newbold and Robert Geddes (the British ownership was severed in 1897), the bank opened its doors amid the civil war raging between the foreign-import Emperor Maximilian and Mexican Revolutionary Benito Juárez. Remarkably, it succeeded in winning the business of merchants and spreading into several branches, partly because it adopted the still-popular British stance of doing business with both sides and partly because its peso notes became Mexico's first nationwide paper currency. (The bank's 20-peso note shows Benito Juárez, Mexico's 33rd President, and Bartolome...