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Before he thought of writing plays, or had a spare shilling to spend on a ticket to the Abbey Theater, O'Casey swung a pick & shovel as a day laborer, worked at nights for the cause of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived...
Copperfield at 40. "Success," observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, from his vantage point as American consul in Liverpool, "makes an Englishman intolerable, [but] an Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character." When successful Charles Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even...
Battle of the Blues. Off the mark, Cambridge's Light Blues had the inside position, an advantage because of two sweeping bends in the river. But Oxford's quick start and steady stroke shot the Royal Blues into an early lead, and they cut inside. The announcer said...
His two-shilling, pocket-sized monthly attracted such leading talents as J. B. Priestley, W. H. Auden, André Gide, T. S, Eliot, E. M. Forster, Stephen Spender. Between their bylines he sandwiched pieces (bought for a few pounds apiece) by hopeful unknowns.
No one admires the relics of ancient Greece more deeply, or more acquisitively, than the British. For a look at a Greek art exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts, 2,500 Londoners a day plunked down a shilling each. They got their shilling's worth. Mostly lent by...