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...William Lamont returned from the agent's office with the news that the Empire Marshal had been ordered to Dairen to load soybeans for England. A crew member yelled, "That's Red China!" Unanimously, the 58 crewmen-four Poles, three expatriate Chinese, one German, 50 Scots and Englishmen-applied the lesson they had learned from the Communists on the way to Indo-China. They voted not to take the ship to any Communist port. Explained Chief Steward Vincent Rottgardt: "We decided on principle. We've been on the anti-Communist side all along...
...that led him fatefully to Culloden, defeat and flight. But, alas, as he listens to Walpole & Co. in the intervals between recitals, Prince Charles decides that 1) the War of Jenkins' Ear actually led to a lot of misery for the human species in general and Englishmen in particular, and 2) the English are satisfied with things as they are, including stuffy Hanoverian George...
...small a puddle as Farbridge. There are "fierce, gay anarchists," mothers of prodigies, blustering M.P.s, professional yokels, degenerate nobility, gumshoes in broom closets, harridans in cholers, blond giants with Chinese grandmothers, hard-faced Communists who gnaw rock-cakes at their meetings; in all, as fair a mess of stage Englishmen as have recently been caught in one volume...
Whichever crew wins the Cambridge-Oxford race will arrive in New York April 7 on the Queen Mary and will driven to Cambridge where it will be trisected and lodged in Lowell, Eliot, and Kirkland. Both crews will train at Newell, though the Englishmen will shut their own shell, an old rowing custom...
...Must Remember." At 33, she took charge of a home for "Sick Gentlewomen in Distressed Circumstances." From then on, God would not wait for Englishmen to muddle through. Despite the Colonel Blimps of the medical corps, she cleaned up the army's medical pestholes in the Crimea. Part sanitary officer, part supply sergeant, and part saint...