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Tuesday, 24th August 2010

From today's Telegraph letters page:

Comparatively ungallant nickname for a military hero

SIR – Those with experience of the old Stock Exchange floor will readily recall some of the nicknames (Letters, August 22) bestowed upon its habitués.

Among them were two brothers, both with highly distinguished military careers and both winners of the Military Cross, one with bar and one without.

The latter acquired the sobriquet of “The Coward”.

Quentin Smith, Dunley, Hampshire

[Many thanks to AH for the tip.]

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gareth

August 25th, 2010 12:20am Report this comment

Isn't it about time Spectator started getting some staff who write in the tradition of Samuel Johnson or Edmund Burke rather than Alex Massie who is more in the tradition of Bryan Adams and Chris de Burgh?
C'mon Spectator - where are our Krauthammers? Rush Limbaughs? Glenn Becks?

Paul Sagar

August 26th, 2010 8:53pm Report this comment

Has a professional intellectual historian, I have to say that I think Edmund Burke and Dr Johnson would take lasting and grave offence at being compared to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Here's why, for a start:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3J_QLtYqlk