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Another less serious problem is the date for the meet. Officials would like to hold the contest while the American schools are in session, but this appears impossible since the Englishmen can not get here in time because of their examinations...
...Americans went to the polls, Englishmen had their eyes on the Buckinghamshire constituency of High Wycombe, where Disraeli three times sought election and lost. There Tories and Socialists were embroiled in a lusty campaign for the seat of Tory William Waldorf Astor, elevated to the peerage (as Viscount Astor) on his father's death...
...followers. He was cremated at Brighton. Over his beflowered coffin a disciple loudly chanted The Beast's erotic Hymn to Pan. The chairman of Brighton's crematorium committee was not impressed by the innovation. Said he, perhaps unconsciously voicing the thoughts of a generation of Englishmen: "We shall take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident occurring again...
Librettist W. S. Gilbert once trapped the editor of Punch with a bland question: Were many jokes sent in? "Hundreds." said the editor. "Then," snapped Gilbert, "why don't you print some of them?" Like some Englishmen, Americans have long looked on Punch's quiet brand of British fun with blank amazement. But since the war, Punch has been trying to broaden its audience (TIME, June 2, 1947). Now, to prove that even U.S. readers can laugh at today's Punch (circ. 136,537), its editors have authorized a collection of The Best Cartoons from Punch (Simon...
...Said the Times: "The personality of the Duke, conveyed in a thousand stories, which glorify a reticence, simplicity, and a fierce contempt for false sentimentality, has become a national myth. Like all myths, it has helped powerfully to form manners. Understatement has, in fact, become a national characteristic, and Englishmen, in the 18th century as lachrymose as any people in Europe, have given up weeping in public...