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That little Rudyard, the precocious child who soon read himself into near blindness, should be the genius who made Englishmen really see for the first time their great, fabulous and glowing Empire of India was a supreme quirk of Fate...
...which it pays $16,000,000. Only Great Britain consumes more. To make U. S. inhabitants even more ardent tea drinkers has long been the aim of the International Tea Market Expansion Board in general, and Mr. Gervas Huxley in particular. Mr. Huxley, the tweedy common denominator of all Englishmen, is Novelist Aldous Huxley's cousin and the director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with a Dutchman and a veteran British tiger-hunter, arrived in the U. S. Mr. Huxley represented the Ceylon growers, the Dutchman spoke for Java-Sumatra...
...reduced to the status of gutter-yappers against His Majesty's Government such newsorgans as London's Liberal Star, which railed against the Prime Minister next day: "The grand old woman of British politics, Stanley Baldwin, passed through an hour of humiliation in Commons debate which most Englishmen would give a Premiership to avoid...
...British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
Because Samuel Pepys took snapshots of himself in various revealing postures and the negatives were discovered and developed by a delighted posterity, the present-day world can never take him with half the seriousness his fellow Englishmen did. Had it not been for the discovery and translation of his shorthand diaries, on the other hand, he might have been buried forever in a respectable obscurity. With a laudable desire to play down Pepys's human frailty, to play up his first-rate abilities. Author Bryant is trying to rehabilitate Pepys as a serious character. Samuel Pepys: The Years...