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...couch potatoed”), recites “Casablanca” and German poetry, and boasts an impressive and oft-quoted literary collection; she peppers the text with nods to real historical heroes (Winston Churchill) and imagined ones (“the late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist and social observer”). Several hand-drawn visual aids—the astute observations of our protagonist—are scattered throughout the text. A final exam is included for the detail-oriented and/or competitive reader...
Doctor tells the story of how four young Englishmen (Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston) get through St. Swithin's medical school-or don't. The curriculum, it would appear, is little more than a course of jokes about medical students, and some of them are funnier to see than they ever were to hear...
...paneled office on St. Swithin's Lane this week, six representatives of London's leading bullion houses gathered and quietly exchanged bids for the purchase and sale of gold bullion. At the end of the session, they fixed an official price of $34.976 an oz. v. the $34.9125 paid by the U.S. Treasury. By their action, in the "gold-fixing room" of Bullion Dealers N. M. Rothschild & Sons, the six men* gave the world its first official free-gold market since the war ended the meetings in the fixing room. The dealers hoped and expected that the move...
...absurd situation, the producers of "The Happiest Days of Your Life" made a consistently amusing movie, if not a side-shaking one. The absurd situation in this movie is caused by a mistake in the (British) Ministry of Education, which assigns the one hundred girls of St. Swithin's School to the Nutbourne College for Boys...
...biggest surprise in the book is the durable quality of the writing of John Galsworthy. Placed alongside the other prizewinners, the story of Swithin Forsyte, from Caravan (1925), is fast, matter-of-fact and honestly funny...