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Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is most picturesque of the four. Reared in that fin-de-siècle British atmosphere that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford & Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower boutonnière and Winston S. Churchill with a paunch, Montagu Collet Norman affects a soft felt hat, bow necktie and a superbly pugnacious goatee. Like his contemporaneous compatriots his wit is keen, his thinking sharp, his knowledge authoritative. Born in 1871, he has been Governor of the Bank of England since...
...Duties of Religion and Piety; and whoever shall profane said Day by unnecessary Business or visiting, walking on the Common, or in the Streets or Fields in the Town of Cambridge, or shall use any Diversions there-on or otherwise Behave himself Disorderly or Unbecoming the Season, shall be fin'd not exceeding three Shillings...
...scholar belonging to the college shall wear any Gold or Silver Lace, cord or Edging upon their Hats, Jackets or any other Parts of their Cloathing, nor any Gold or Silver Brocades in the College or Town of Cambridge. Whoever shall offend against this law shall be fin'd not exceeding twenty Shillings...
...penalty for the first offense against temperance was less than that for wearing gold braid. The law about drunkenness was that "if any Scholar should be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fin'd one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a publick confession or be degraded, according to the Aggravation of the Offence. And if any Scholar persist in a course of Intemperance, he shall be Rusticated or Expelled...
Wassermann has a peculiarly contemporary appeal; yet Christian Wahnsschaffe and Eva Sorel, Friedrich and Pia Laudin are universal; Christian Wahnschaffe will always be lost in the wilderness of evil, searching with blind eyes for a remote Justice. Jacob Wassermann will not die with his enemy and victim, "fin de siecle...