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...with arcane phrases like "tip him a settler" (knock him out), epithets like "nipcheese" (a parsimonious person), verbs like "fadge" (to make sense). Male characters do not dress; they are accoutered, like Achilles, in the armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second son of now-defunct Lord Denville, comes home to London, after helping his uncle preside at the Congress...
Immortal Inspirers. Actually, the Pre-Raphaelites did not see themselves as holding back the clock. They were rather a band of rebels in a century abristle with dissent. Three young Englishmen founded the movement in 1848, a year of social revolution throughout Europe, eleven years after Constable's death: William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, none over 21 years...
...palmy Victorian days when Kipling's Tommy Atkins called the British army the "thin red line of 'eroes," few Englishmen could predict how thin the line might get. On the troubled island of Cyprus, in beleaguered Aden, and within the threatened Malaysian Federation, in recent weeks the line seemed stretched to the breaking point. Indeed, alarmed at the frequency with which British troops are dispatched to overseas trouble spots, the London Daily Telegraph harrumphed: "Officers who hold the Queen's Commission cannot be air-freighted without ceremony from their lawful appointments. British battalions cannot be whistled about...
...affluence of a personal foundry came to Capralos late. During his student days in Paris at the Grande Chaumiere, he was so poor that he filched sketching pads. Accused of the theft by an English art student, Capralos threw back the Elgin marbles: "You rich Englishmen have stolen the whole frieze of the Parthenon! How dare you protest when a poor Greek takes a sheet of your paper?" During World War II, Capralos made his own warring frieze a 135-ft. by 33-ft. monument, in plaster relief, to the Greek repulse of the Italian army in the Pindus Mountains...
...they were long thought to be by Hogarth.) He then began painting imaginary ruins, mingling fancy with the realistic landscapes. And this foretaste of rococo and romanticism created a whole new genre of painting, called caprices, that came to edge out the veduta, or popular views bought mainly by Englishmen gallivanting on the European grand tour as forerunners of today's postcards...