First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.

He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were spent yachting or canoeing or with his brothers. By 1903, Baden-Powell's military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller, […]

So much so that even the very word “stoic” tends to conjure up the image of a stern, betogaed Roman, although Stoicism itself was, like astrology, yet another Hellenistic import.

Her reactions to the X-rays were very severe, and for the first three or four days after treatment her skin had a positively gray tinge, her face puffing out doughily.