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As he was paying his taxes, one Fred Walker of Alford, Lincolnshire, swore at the tax collector. Last week, under a law passed in 1745, Fred Walker was fined. The law holds that persons who resent paying their taxes may be fined one shilling if they are day laborers, two...
Oblique Chat. The women of London could not so easily forget. Housewives fretted about paying tenpence for limp lettuce and a shilling for fist-sized cauliflower. They muddied their boots and sprained their elderly tweed skirts poking around in wartime garden plots while they dreamed of home-grown peas and...
Besides rationing, wartime Britain has also been worried about its scandalous, booming black market in foodstuffs sold above the controlled prices. Already the Ministry of Food has prosecuted 30,000 cases, has got 27,000 convictions. One dealer was fined ?300 ($1,200) for selling three-shilling-sixpence young chickens...
What was in the letter? What had been said at that mystic tryst off the rock-bound Coast of Somewhere? While the whole world cupped its ear, the Ministry of Information permitted correspondents to cable that His Britannic Majesty's Prime Minister had refused an option on 600 of...
Jekyll and Hyde was an instant bestseller and a boon to hundreds of sermon-seeking clerics. Richard Mansfield read it and induced his friend Thomas Russell Sullivan to adapt the "shilling shocker" for the stage. He played it in London and all over the U.S. until he died 20 years...