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...group of Englishmen are planning to explore the tombs of the Sultans in and around Constantinople...
...Concert Mayol, a Paris music hall, advertises a piece called Oh,Quel Nul For the benefit of Americans and Englishmen, the following free translation is inserted on the billboard: Ladies Shirt...
...predominance of visitors of this impressionable type causes a good many Americans to lose sight of the fact that there are Englishmen who know world affairs and can discuss something besides their sentiments on seeing the Woolworth Tower...
...liquids in terms of pints and quarts and gallons--no one of which measurements bear any decimal relation to another. Even between these two countries the "gallon" does not mean the same for Americans use the "Queen Anne's Wine Gallon", being the equivalent of 4.5 litres, while Englishmen use the "Imperial Gallon" of 3.5 litres, and the Stotch and Canadians follow them...
These assertions are not mere overflowings of excess chauvinism, but are amply backed by grave and portentous reasons. Since 1918 the percentage of Englishmen at Oxford has fallen from 31 to 66 per cent, a drop of nearly twenty degrees. With their increase in numbers, the Americans have begun to "assert themselves in every conceivable direction" so that now the whole University is "under the influence of an overwhelming minority of Americans". The president of the Oxford Union and the president of the Moot Club are both Americans and one of the undergraduate journals has been taken over by Americans...