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.

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.

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, […]