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...real snobs . . . secretly afraid of what they might find." Smashing reverse English, what? When the reader is on the defensive, the director presses home: "The only reason the undersigned can establish the identity of his earliest recorded ancestor is the existence of a document showing that Lambert Massynberd was had up for [doing] grievous bodily harm in 1288."Note the strategy? First the more-felonious-ancestry-than-thou ploy, then hit them with the 700-year-old family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hands Across the Sea | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

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