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MOCKERY, MACARONIS & MAYHEM
”He on all occasions professes a detestation of what he calls ”can’t”; says it will banish from England all that is pure and good; and that while people are looking after the shadow, they lose the substance of the goodness; … Continue reading
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MINESTRONIES AND MACARONIES
“Why did yankee doodle stick a feather in his hat and call it macaroni? Back in Pre-Revolutionary America when the song ‘Yankee Doodle’ was first popular, the singer was not referring to the pasta ‘macaroni’ in the line that reads … Continue reading
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Tagged British pictorial satire, British pictorial satire and cartoon, Carrington Bowles, Dorothy Boyle, George Townshend, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Mark Bryant, Mary Darly, Robert Dighton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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