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...anticipation, and in an extraordinarily keen discrimination about when to play a ball and when to let it go out. His serve, almost as severe as Vines's, is equally dependable. With slower ground strokes than most first-rate U. S. tennists, and less style than most Englishmen, who play as though the net were a mirror, Crawford has an energetic steadiness that depresses his opponents, a tireless ability to play his positive, muscular shots, not for aces but for errors. The most unusual thing about Crawford on a tennis court is his flat-topped, thick-framed...
...ordered by the British Cabinet) to revoke the order in council. In Moscow the engineer-prisoners knew nothing of this dickering. Suddenly their cell door clanged open. "Pack your kits!" barked the Soviet warden. Nervously, not knowing whether they might be going to Siberia or worse, the two Englishmen packed. "Now come this way. March!" Engineers Thornton and MacDonald marched down a series of corridors and out into an open courtyard-just the place for a firing squad. With a paper in his hand the Prison Director approached. "This is a decree of the Central Executive Committee!" he boomed. "Gentlemen...
...disent Ies grenouilles? ("What say the frogs [of Paris]?'') was a common phrase among courtiers of Louis XVI at Versailles just before the French Revolution, referred to the fact that the Paris rabble were supposed to live like frogs in slime. Eighteenth Century Englishmen, suspecting that their French enemies ate frogs' legs, called them contemptuously "frogs...
...Scots with mixed admiration as a nation of sturdy but unconsciously humorous characters; the Scots view the English with more or less kindly contempt. Scottish Author Macdonell, at home on both sides of the Tweed, has written the kind of hilarious, good-natured (i.e. flattering) satire on England which Englishmen love. U. S. readers may enjoy it too, unless they have Irish blood in them, in which case they may be annoyed at the way Author Macdonell pulls his punches...
...imprisoned Englishmen in question are all employees of the Metropolitan-Vickers Company, a British firm doing some work for the Communist government. They have been accused of deliberately attempting to wreck the power system. Two other Britons from the same company were also arrested, but later released; one of them, Alan Monkhouse, reported that the wicked OGPU had treated him with extreme courtesy and intelligence. From their purely disinterested position the British authorities have decided, and have informed the Soviets, that the case against the remaining four is inadequate and should be dismissed at once. Russia, on the other hand...