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Updated: May 1, 2025
"That's inevitable, I suppose," Henry thought to himself. The sloppier journalists made a cult of blasphemy and foul speech.
Through all the years that have since passed, have I ever lost the smell of the damp straw in which I was packed like game and forwarded, carriage paid, to the Cross Keys, Wood-street, Cheapside, London? There was no other inside passenger, and I consumed my sandwiches in solitude and dreariness, and it rained hard all the way, and I thought life sloppier than I had expected to find it.
Everybody seems to have money, but the government is always broke. Deficit spending and always the vital social services for which the government has to spend money. The most vital one, of course, is buying votes to keep the government in power. And it gets harder for the government to get anything done. "The soldiers are sloppier at drill, and their uniforms and weapons aren't taken care of.
Boxing-day on the river: The silent street is almost deserted. There is no rush for the Express boat to-day. It is literally the streets muddier and sloppier than the Thames itself that are the attraction. Some little boys are making the trip from Westminster to London Bridge as a treat; and it is an intense joke with them to pretend to be dreadfully seasick.
It was immaterial to the sloppier journalists that the drill-sergeant did not do anything of the sort ... and so the legend grew, of a great Army going into battle, not with the old English war-cries on their lips or with new cries as noble, but with "Bloody!" for their watch-word, and "Who were you With Last Night!" for their war-song....
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