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...century between Waterloo and Sarajevo, 35,000,000 people left the Old World for the New, half of them in three great waves- Celtic, Teutonic and Slavic-Mediterranean. This, says Hansen, was the greatest mass movement in history, and it was unorganized. But it had roots in almost every aspect of contemporary European society, and even in the Middle Ages...
...House tartly: "There is a great body of opinion, which isn't sufficiently articulate, that public schools should be allowed to die a natural death. Some would like them to die a little more violently." Crumped acid Labor M.P. Charles Ammon: "While it is said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it can be answered now that the Battle of Britain was won on the playing fields of the [State] schools of England...
...Citadel," "David Copperfield," "Fury," "Good-bye Mr. Chips," "The Great Zeigfeld," "Naughty Marietta," "Pride and Prejudice," "Pygmalion," "The Informer," "Roberta," "Stage Door," "Winterset," "Dead End," "Wuthering Heights," "The Prisoner of Zenda," "A Star is Born." "Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Story of Louis Pasteur," "The Gay Divorcee," and "Waterloo Bridge...
TIME, Jan. 20 quotes the Duke of Wellington as having said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. . . . According to Lyte's History of Eton College, the only record of any remark of this kind is contained in a contemporary account . . . : "He looked into the garden and asked what had become of the broad ditch over which he used often to leap. He said: 'I really believe I owe my spirit of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden...
...Memoriam. In Waterloo, Neb., Editor Frank B. Cox advertised in his Douglas County Gazette: "I have for sale a very fine, large and varied assortment of Willkie buttons. Or will trade for a kidney stew or English bull dog. Only one of this collection to be reserved-lest we forget...