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...combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to [the following] acts: . . . quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; . . . protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants . . .; cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; . . . transporting us . . . to be tried for pretended offenses; . . . abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of . . . governments...
Wodehouse's second novel since the war has all the nicely timed plotting and mock style of its many predecessors; its world, as usual, is a world all its own. Blandings Castle is the scene; present are Lord Emsworth, who resembles a heap of old clothes in the moonlight, his prize pig, his battle-ax of a sister and various featherbrained members of a younger generation intent on strategies of love. Full Moon lacks the fresh epithets and fruity exuberance of Wodehouse's most inventive stories, but its nitwitticisms will satisfy the addicted...
...Mock marathon entries and seductive models may have held the spotlights in Jubilee's ultra-extrovert publicity up to now, but a theatrical item in the weekend's activities will play a larger part in the future...
Banked with mock turtles, dodoes, lories, red and white queens, mad hatters, March hares and hookah-smoking caterpillars, she manages to make them as real as she is by making herself as unreal as they are. This is the art of fantasy...
...both oceans, submarines scored outstanding successes, "sinking" the flagship of the Atlantic force, and a capital ship (battleship or carrier) in the Pacific. To many a Navy man who sees the submarine as the best warship of the future, this was the most significant result of the mock warfare...