The London Lounge

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris



Admiral Sir John Forster "Sandy" Woodward

Brigadier Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat

Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Jack" Churchill



Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot "Jacky" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone

To this list I would like to add Theodore Roosevelt's speech, The Strenuous Life . When friends of mine have found themselves in various types of strife in the past, I have directed them to this text. It is available online: http://www.bartleby.com/58/1.html As imperialistic pep talks go, not bad.....

To this list I would like to add Theodore Roosevelt's speech, The Strenuous Life. When friends of mine have found themselves in various types of strife in the past, I have directed them to this text. It is available online: http://www.bartleby.com/58/1.html

Another notable scene is when Poirot meets David Niven as Colonel Race in Death on the Nile.

Mine would have to be the Turkish bath scene in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

Now, it may have been perceived as such, but the original post in this thread was not intended as a piece of black humor. On the opposite, it was an expression of admiration for the men who will not forgo elegance or gentlemanliness even under the constraints of war. Bien sur , marcelo, but I can't...

I was reading a text on WW I, when I came across the passage below. For the first time it occurred to me that sometimes it may be wise to prefer RTW in lieu of bespoke: "As German snipers soon realized, [British] officers could be picked out - and picked off - by their uniform. In contrast to the m...

For those interested, I would highly recommend the wonderful book 'Churchill's Cigar', available here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Churchills-Ciga ... 0230528929. There is even a town in Australia named Churchill that has a giant cigar-like object in the town square!

I thought that there existed broad agreement that there should be no agonizing over this!! The object is to go into a kind of auto pilot and instinctively recognize good and bad ideas on this subject. Or am I missing the point? NJS I suppose it's like learning an instrument; you have to agonize ove...

The last one is a bit too busy to my eye; I would probably go for a deep navy blue necktie.

Frog in Suit wrote: It is satisfying to know that we will no longer be around to witness this abomination.

Frog in Suit

Spare a thought for those of us who are still (hopefully) in the first half of our lives!

Nicely done, I think.

Are they sandals that he is wearing?