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...choosing, which your Brain Trust would bungle in a day. Stretch every American's brain far enough to grasp that the monarchy is a different thing from the man who is King, and that British royalist sentiment has little to do with the blah-haw-haw which selected Englishmen, usually pabliticians, spill through the cigar smoke at Hands-Across-the-Sea dinners...
Quite sincerely, when you are rude to the present occupant of the Throne, you touch the kind old daddy, not of the aristocracy, but of millions of impoverished, overtaxed Englishmen in the middle classes who see in the King's outlook on life one of the few remaining pieces of sentiment they can still permit themselves...
...series of lectures given in the Anson G. Phelps Lectureship on Early American History at New York University. In taking this view of the settlements and those who made them, the author defends his plan in the Preface by saying that "The men who founded the colonies were Englishmen, the incentives that impelled them to migrate were English in their origin and the forms of colonial life and government they set up were reproductions or modifications of institutions already established and conditions already prevailing in one way or another at home." Therefore the "first duty of him who would write...
...somewhat shocked, being patriotic, by the behavior of one who, although he is my uncle, should know better. . . . I refer to the Duke of Westminster. He is one of the richest Englishmen. His money should do good in and to England. Instead of shouldering his responsibilities, he has two houses in France, a pack of boar hounds also in France, a yacht on which he spends a good deal of his time in foreign waters, and now I see he is no longer going to have any race horses in England. He has sent his string over to France...
Times. Believers agreed that the creature must have floundered up the stream which connects Loch Ness with the North Sea, since obviously it could not have surmounted the locks in the Caledonian Canal which leads from the lake to the Atlantic. Englishmen began to take the monster seriously when Lieut. -Commander R. T. Gould, R. N. retired, author of The Case for the Sea Serpent, collected 51 eye witness accounts and drawings, which he duly detailed in the London Times. It was about 50 ft. long, he had concluded, and not more than five feet thick, with long, tapering neck...