References in Popular Culture
The Pall Mall Gazette is referred to in Dr Watson's Sherlock Holmes stories (in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle), as one of the newspapers Holmes sent an advertisement to.
The Pall Mall Gazette is referred to in HG Wells' The Time Machine. When the Time Traveler returns to London he sees that day's copy of the Pall Mall Gazette and knows he is back to his original starting point in time.
The Pall Mall Gazette is referred to in Bram Stoker's epistolary novel Dracula. The reader is presented with an article describing the escape of a wolf from the Zoological Gardens.
The Pall Mall Gazette is the first news paper or magazine to start interviewing people and publishing it.
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.”
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