Word: aldwych
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They never knew it, but Britons who used the Aldwych station in London's Underground (subway) to hide from German bombs had classical company. Workmen last week began removing some $16,000,000 worth of ancient heroes & heroines from an offshoot of the Underground station. The ancients were the British Museum's famed Elgin Marbles, plucked from the Parthenon (in 1801) by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin...
George V, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, rode in state down the Strand last week to the just-finished pile of India House on Aldwych, passed smiling between lines of gold-braided officialdom, mounted the Throne of India guarded by four gigantic Indian Orderlies in red and black, and faced his own specially designed gold and silver microphone...