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Fast clipper ships replaced the slow-moving East Indiamen, and China tea was the profitable cargo. To prevent idlers from wasting his business hours, Merchant Jardine kept no chair in his office but his own. He made huge deals with Bombay Tycoon Jamsetjee Jeejeebboy. Hundreds of young Englishmen, attracted by high wages & high life, flocked to China. Race tracks were built, blood horses imported. Gibb, Livingstone & Co. (John Gibb was a member of the Race Club Committee) never questioned the living expenses of their young employees unless the soda-water bills for their mess exceeded $500 a month...
...some 1,000 fans patiently queued for tickets. By morning, when tickets went on sale, the queue had swelled to 16,000, stretching for two miles. The crowd became unruly; it pushed over a couple of brick walls, trampled gardens, uprooted hedges. This frenzied performance by normally well-behaved Englishmen was directed to a single-minded purpose: getting tickets for the Chelsea-Arsenal soccer game, the semifinal climax of the Football Association Cup matches. By noon, 50,000 tickets had been sold, and scalpers were offering them for resale at eight times the 2 shillings sixpence (35?) purchase price. Britons...
...Wyndham Lewis tried to rouse a whole generation of Englishmen with that manifesto, but Englishmen had every excuse for not paying attention. The manifesto appeared just as they were girding to meet the greater blast of World War I. Thirty-year-old Painter-Poet Lewis was soon in the army himself, and the authorities showed unusual imaginativeness by assigning him, as war artist, to the Canadian artillery at Vimy Ridge...
...Disreputable Transaction." This displeased everybody: Winston Churchill, then Opposition leader, called it "a disreputable transaction," and most Englishmen seemed to agree. Tribesmen began a campaign of passive resistance, refused to pay taxes. Seretse and Tshekedi patched up their quarrel. Britain's Labor government, which had allowed Seretse to return to his wife in Bechuanaland for the birth of their baby, abruptly ordered them out of Africa...
...language of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer as musty as it is memorable? A good many Englishmen seem to think so, to judge by the hot salvos of mail they have been dropping on the old (1549) masterpiece in the pages of London's Daily Telegraph. Squadron Leader P.J.D. Wood of the R.A.F. touched off the controversy after the death of George VI. While intoning the commemorative service for the late sovereign, wrote Commander Wood to the Telegraph, he had snatched a quick look round at the faces of his airmen, and found them a perfect blank. Wood...