Word: redcoated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show, bright and British as a redcoat, rose to the occasion. It was a political parable about two youngsters (Soprano Carole Lynn and Tenor Eric Palmer) who get themselves elected to Parliament on an All Party ticket. Forthwith they foil the villainess, Mrs. Alderman Busy (Joan Young), a battle-ax burlesque of Lady Astor. With the aid of Big Ben the barge-master (David Davies), they abduct her from the floor of the House of Commons while she is proposing Prohibition. And after much pother and porridge, all factions unite in a flag-waving finale ("Big Ben! Big Ben! . . . Chime...
...narrative than informal history. Admits Lamb: "The separation between the Crown and the Colonies must in the nature of things have come about at some time or other, and perhaps it was as well that it came when it did." Even so, his view of the partition is a Redcoat's, not a Yankee's. Without mentioning the Declaration of Independence, Lamb subtly offers the other side of its blistering list of grievances against the "Tyrant," George III. Lamb's own grievance is that, while the Revolution was right, its professed justification was righteous...