Saturday, 30 November 2019

Cricket is also ideally suited to boarding-school life because it goes on for hours and soaks up whole afternoons

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St Leonads, Wycombe Abbey, Rodean, Cheltenham, Sherborne School for Girls and Malvern Girls' College modelled themselves on boys' pu...
Friday, 29 November 2019

The acceptable home address was: name of large house; village it was quite near; county.

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The acceptable home address was: name of large house; village it was quite near; county. It was not done to live at any kind of obscure urba...
Thursday, 28 November 2019

No fewer than fifteen had lost one or both parents when they were children

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All told, of the twenty-four individuals who became Prime Minister between 1809 and 1937, no fewer than fifteen had lost one or both parent...
Wednesday, 27 November 2019

You are expecting the nectar of the gods, and what you get is cough mixture

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I have tried meads that taste of urine, and meads that taste of petroleum waste . What I have not tasted are any that are particularly nice...
Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Fleming threatened to rename the character 'Goldprick', and the case never came to court.

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[Brutalism's] most notorious exponent was the patrician Hungarian-born architect Erno Goldfinger, who lived in an uncompromising concret...

The soundtrack of the American musical South Pacific spent forty-six weeks at number one

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The most popular Beatles' album,  Please Please Me,  spent forty-three weeks in the Top Ten. By comparison, the soundtrack of the Ameri...
Tuesday, 19 November 2019

There was nothing quite like the condescension of the public schoolboy for his grammar school equivalent.

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Wilson himself had sent his children to private schools, as did most of his ministers. C.P. Snow explained that 'if you are living in a ...