Memories of the future : $b Being memoirs of the years 1915‒1972, written in the year of grace 1988Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott
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Memories of the future : $b Being memoirs of the years 1915‒1972, written in the year of grace 1988
Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott
English fiction -- 20th century; Satire, English; Twentieth century -- Forecasts
Polebridge, Lady, 78, 93, 116‒118, 126, 175, 186, 198, 237
Poltwhistle, Lord Chief Justice, 192
Porstock, Wilson Lord, 100, 109‒111, 124‒127, 142, 170, 189
Poughkeepsie, Lord and Lady, 103‒105
Pulbrooke, Countess of (in her own right), 167, 174, 187
Rivers, Mrs., on chewing, 107
Ropes, Charles, 99, 147, 148
Rowlands, Rev. Agape, 86, 87, 89‒92, 108, 109, 114‒116, 124, 127, 158,
176
Rowlands, Rev. Didymus, 85, 87, 90, 91, 213
Rymer, Sir Alexander, 74
Sanderson, the Præteritist portrait-painter, 201‒205
Sandham, Lord, wears “starched” collars, 133
Sandridge, Dr., Head-Master of Eton, 185
Savage, Juliet, 30, 31, 39, 41, 52, 77, 79, 86, 118, 119, 122, 125,
144, 172, 177, 187, 188, 206, 225
Schultz, Herr, the pædagogist, 178‒180
Shanks, Dr., 73
Sholto, Mrs., _see_ Drake.
Sitwell, Dame Mary, the scalp specialist, 132
Smith, H.E., Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster, 189, 209, 221, 222
Sonnenschein, Miss, 77
Spink, Mrs., authoress of _Eugenics for Lower Forms_, 137
Stockdale, Lady, _see_ de Brignard.
Tarporley, Mrs., _see_ Travers-Grant, Lady.
Tonks, Arthur, Regius Professor of Statistics, 163
Toogood, Ena, 37
Townshend’s house at Eton, 183
Travers, Eustace, his versatility, 41
Travers-Grant, Lady, _see_ Polebridge.
Trecastle, Lady, 13, 14, 224
Trecastle, Lord, the last of the beavers, 133
Tremayne, James, his solution of the exchange problem, 98
Tryer, Dr., her methods, 75, 76
Winterhead, _see_ Blisworth, Lord.
Woollcombe, Miss, the bowler, 24
Wrightman, the sculptor, 173
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Footnote 1:
Meaning, of course, the Five Years’ War.
Footnote 2:
Miss Linthorpe’s record did not seem so extraordinary then as it
would now; even as late as the fifties I remember a few young men
of thirty or thirty-five who had still some of their own teeth
left.
Footnote 3:
Previously Baroness Engelberg, née Hopkins.
Footnote 4:
Previously Mrs. Sholto, previously Baroness Engelberg, née Hopkins.
Footnote 5:
Previously Mrs. Drake, previously Mrs. Sholto, previously Baroness
Engelberg, née Hopkins.
Footnote 6:
Curiously enough, this hymn was written by a lady who afterwards
became a Catholic, early in the century.
Footnote 7:
This was Augustus Hemmerde, afterwards famous as a dramatist.
Footnote 8:
This, it will be remembered, actually happened, and the raising of the
premium to £7,500 was one of the chief counts against the Tory Party.
Footnote 9:
My father always used to speak of this as “the Coalition Government.”
The name Cabal was invented by later historians to distinguish it from
the 1974 Coalition; the names that suggested it were those of
Churchill, Arthur (Balfour), Birkenhead, Austen (Chamberlain) and
Lloyd (George).
Footnote 10:
The records are, however, somewhat scratched as the result of the fire
at Cippenham in ’73.
Footnote 11:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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