WHEN I took my passage for Liverpool I naturally inquired what kind of man he was in whose charge and under whose command I was to be for some ten days upon the ocean. I was told that he was an ...

In 1977 an eighteen-year-old American skipped his high school graduation to play tennis in Europe. Although an amateur, he competed against professionals — thrilling fans and maddening traditionalists ...

First, let’s be clear: Henry Hitchings, author of “Sorry!,” certainly doesn’t argue that the English are paragons of civility in the modern world. (Hooliganism, anyone?) But over the centuries, the ...

It has been claimed in some quarters, Henry Hitchings writes in this entertaining and informative survey of English manners past and present, that the word "sorry" is now "near extinction" in England.

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