Word: shillinger
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Newspapers then were few and bad; the public paid up to a shilling a print for what were, in effect, editorial cartoons. George III complained that he "could not understand" Caricaturist James Gillray's pictorial attacks on him. The King would have had to be stupider than history has...
On the night of Jan. 1, 1753, Elizabeth Canning, 18, a shy, yellow-haired London servant girl, said good night to her aunt at the foot of Houndsditch Road and set out for the home of her master, an elderly carpenter who lived near Bedlam Hospital. She was dressed in...
That was enough for the posse. Despite a boarder's insistence that he and his wife had slept in the loft for weeks, Mary Squires, Mother Wells and all the household were carted off to jail. "The Bawd of Enfield" was branded on the thumb and let go, but...
The man somebody called "the greatest quartermaster since Moses" reduced the weekly diet of every bacon-loving, tea-bibbing Briton to four and two ounces respectively, his sugar to eight ounces, meat to a shilling-and-tuppence worth (about 26?), fats to eight ounces, and milk to two and a...
In last week's Lancet, Captain Wilson explained her amazing survival: on opening the wound - it ran from her left side a little above the waist to a spot near her navel - he found that the shilling-sized hole nicked out of her intestine had be come fixed against...