Tuesday, 30 May 2023

His local butcher had promised him a lamb chop for every run he scored up to 50, and a steak per run after that

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At Lord's, England pulled two surprises. The first was Denness's resignation as captain and replacement by Greig. The second was the...
Monday, 29 May 2023

All her previous visits to Tests at headquarters, as sovereign, had been on the fourth day

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MCC, exasperated after the Queen had missed play in all three Lord's Tests she was scheduled to attend since the previous Ashes, arrange...
Monday, 22 May 2023

No young women, no matter how clever, could break her way out of a dress like that

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Every day she wore a dress of black-and-red-checked imitation wool, so big it was baggy on her, and a pair of homemade, grey cloth shoes,. S...
Sunday, 21 May 2023

A slowly decaying piece of meatish fallibility in clothes

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The body is, in its essentials, a very, very slow one-man horror show: a slowly decaying piece of meatish fallibility in clothes, over the s...
Saturday, 20 May 2023

There were more books in Oxford, more people his own age, less dying

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All students over sixteen were required to take an oath acknowledging royal supremacy over all questions of religion: but it was thought tha...
Saturday, 29 April 2023

Everything from this period was bad for the reputation of Belgium! So they showed nothing.

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There was a rule in the Foreign Ministry archives. They were not permitted to show researchers material that was bad for the reputation of B...
Friday, 28 April 2023

The effect on anyone who read those stories could be only that of overwhelming horror

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And so the statements [on the atrocities in the Congo] continue, story after story, by the hundreds. Here at last was something the rest of ...