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Privy O.K. The American invasion has been so successful that the most determined British purist cannot even counterattack without unconsciously employing Americanisms. Most Englishmen would be astonished to learn, for instance, that businessman, governmental, graveyard, law-abiding, lengthy, overcoat and telegram are of U.S. origin. And even Noah Webster would be surprised to learn that O.K. ("without question the most successful of all Americanisms, old or new") has recently been approved by the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, which "decided formally that inscribing O.K. upon a legal document 'meant that the details contained...
...Some Englishmen shuddered...
...after the Laski speech, Bank of England stock, which rates as a trustee security, fell ?9½, down to ?357½. Governor Thomas Sivewright Catto and his fellow bankers sat tight. Nationalization would mean that the bank's ?14,533,000 capital stock, held by some 35,000 Englishmen, would be bought by the British Treasury...
...assure him that if he will withhold his opinion of other types of Englishmen until he makes first-hand acquaintance with some of them, he will find many "good eggs" among them also...
...British are definitely predominant in downtown Athens. They look well, and behave even better. Athens is clean, bright, and almost gay, compared with Italian cities and Belgrade. Sidewalk cafes are crowded with Englishmen and Greeks willing and able to pay 35? for a tiny blob of ice cream and 20? for a thimbleful of coffee...