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Frewen was still in good spirits when it came time to leave England. Farewelling boozily with his hunting and gambling friends and with the actress Lillie Langtry, a mistress he shared with the Prince of Wales, he missed the boat train to Liverpool. His ship, the Bothnia, was to dock in Ireland before continuing to New York, so Frewen caught the night boat to Dublin, hired a special train to speed him to the port in Cork, and arrived just as the Bothnia steamed out of the harbor. He had, however, cabled his brother Richard, who was already on board...
...musically, instead of pushing farther out into the realms that the Beatles charted in such songs as Strawberry Fields Forever and A Day in the Life, the record glances backward to the simple, hard-driving style they left behind in Liverpool. There are no electronic rumbles, no shifting keys or tempos-just a bluesy melodic line plunging exuberantly over an instrumental backing that is straight out of an old-fashioned record...
...John Harvard Library was established by the Belknap Press of the University Press in 1955 to make important but inaccessible documents of American cultural history generally available. The collection includes such works as Frederick Hawkins Piercy's Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley and Isaac Ray's A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity...
Barclays' prospective partners are Lloyds Bank, the country's third largest, and smaller, Liverpool-based Martins Bank. With total deposits of $11.66 billion, the new bank would not only be Britain's biggest but would rank No. 4 worldwide, behind the U.S.'s Bank of America ($19 billion), Chase Manhattan ($15.76 billion) and First National City ($15.2). And it shapes up as an even more formidable financial force when the subsidiary operations of the three partners are included; Barclays Bank, for example, holds a 51% interest in far-flung Barclays Bank D.C.O. (for Dominion, Colonial & Overseas...
...answer such questions, Pope-Hennessy turns again and again to the same motive: profit. Shipbuilders in Liverpool, French sugar planters in the West Indies, rum manufacturers in Massachusetts (there were 63 distilleries there in 1750), coffee growers in Brazil, to say nothing of owners of cotton, rice and tobacco plantations in the South-all were dependent, directly or indirectly, upon the slave trade. All their quoted comments, says the disapproving author, ring with "the eternal voice of the middleman, the levelheaded, grating speech of money...