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...Sands caused a sensation by speaking of a plausible German invasion of England. It has been reprinted enough to become a minor classic. Generations of readers have leaned back joyfully into the author's affectionate knowledge of the sea as they follow the adventures of two young Englishmen who cruise the low-lying islands and tidal sands of the North Sea in a small boat and unravel a plot that involves spying and skullduggery...
...dogs and Englishmen were not the only ones going out in the midday sun last week. All over Western Europe, it seemed, there was no escape from the record-breaking heat. In Paris, thermometers pushed 100° for the first time in almost 30 years. In the French countryside, the sun boiled away village duckponds and scorched crops in one of the worst droughts of the century...
...wars are per se bad and boring, that wars never settle anything anyway, are advised to check these sentiments at the library door. Then, as now, to be sure, geopolitics, diplomacy, economics, and above all, sheer chance, played a vast role in the affairs of men. But Americans and Englishmen of 200 years ago, unlike men today, lumped all such contingencies under the heading of Providence. They clearly believed that a few brave men, with some help from Providence, might change the course of history. Such a view may now be regarded as a delusion. But it is hard...
...court. The King has no small talk, and for want of anything better to say, he is likely to end half his conversations with a hearty "What? What?" and the other half with a "Hey? Hey?" Still, George is pleased by every sign of his personal popularity with ordinary Englishmen-at least until the start of the war-and he enjoys the nickname, based on his love of rural outings, "Farmer George...
...outdone by their countrywomen, the notoriously foppish young men of London's Macaroni Club (so named because of its members' love of Continental food and fashions) have also begun sporting coiffures of enormous height. Most Englishmen, however, are turning to a more natural look. The cumbersome, bottom-heavy periwig, with its almost waist-length expanse of curls, has long since given way to a proliferation of shorter, more comfortable styles...