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Whitsun Wager: The Results
By STRIX
FIRST, the answers.
1. There is an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better. stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
Said by Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson (in His Last Bow) on the night of August 2/3, 1914, after outwitting and chloroforming the fiendish Von Bork, 'a man who could hardly be matched among all the devoted agents of the Kaiser.'
2. Hitler has missed the bus.
Said by Neville Chamberlain on April 4, 1940, in a speech to the Central Council of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations at the Central Hall, Westminster. The preceding sentence was: 'I feel ten times as confident of victory as I did at the beginning.' Hitler invaded Norway and Denmark five days later.
3. Thus he vanished—reckless and wary, graceful and graceless, handsome, debonair, vile and unconquered.
In Tire Prisoner of Zenda, Rudolf Rassendyll thus described the flight of Rupert of Hentzau when their one-sided duel—Rupert was mounted, Rudolf on foot and already wounded—was in- terrupted by the arrival of Fritz von Tarlenheim, armed with a revolver.
4.1 thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Said, according to Chapter 17 of My Early Life, of Winston Churchill by A. J. Balfour in 1899 after his defeat in the Oldham by-election, in the course of which he deviated from the party line over the Clerical Tithes Bill.
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