Monday, 25 November 2013

She could have recited the Twenty-Third Psalm and made it indecent

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The lyrics of Marie [Lloyd]’s songs were never crude, but they were sufficiently suggestive to encourage the mind to wander. She could, sai...
Friday, 22 November 2013

It was low born but irresistable

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In its formative years, the vulgarity and sentimentality of music hall attracted a largely working-class audience, but its appeal was far w...
Thursday, 31 October 2013

Suitable for those sons (and a few daughters) of wealthy men whose academic abilities were limited

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Modern History was the most popular school in Oxford, regarded as a soft option, suitable for those sons (and a few daughters) of wealthy me...
Tuesday, 17 September 2013

The casualties at Antietam numbered for times the total suffered by American soldiers at the Normandy beaches

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The casualties at Antietam numbered four times the total suffered by American soldiers at the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. More than t...
Monday, 16 September 2013

The United states has usually prepared for its wars after getting into them

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The United states has usually prepared for its wars after getting into them. Never was this more true than the Civil War. the country was l...
Monday, 9 September 2013

The only way to make everybody listen was to start a fire in the middle of the room and then identify the location of all the emergency exits

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You never got everyone's attention, not if you were the Pope saying mass in St. Peter's Square or Renee Fleming in recital at Carne...
Tuesday, 13 August 2013

The beer had been far too inadequate to make them drunk; it made them only moody and reflective

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One of the infrequent rations of beer was given out the same night, and the men finished their three cans quickly, and sat around without s...