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During the War the Londonderrys with drew upstairs into their own attic, turned the rest of Londonderry House into a hospital. To the Marchioness and to her arch-Tory husband in those days J. Ramsay MacDonald was "that Pacifist!" ? the lowest of socialist scum. As late as 1929, Lord Londonderry publicly hoped that Prime Minister MacDonald would lose his parliamentary seat in Seaham, where his miner constituents dig Londonderry coal. Two years later Lord Londonderry exploded that the last Labor Cabinet headed by Scot MacDonald "is clinging like limpets to office . . . unfit to govern...
...Saroyan's stories are concerned with the mental processes of degenerate, perverted, and artistic human beings. They have as their locale, bawdy houses, barber shops, dingy attic rooms, and cafes. The people he tells us about, so lucidly at times, are barbers, who talk of diplomacy, militarism, and conquest; bums who are too dignified to sell postcards; and youths first experiencing the sexual urge...
...daughter once wanted to put little Gloria in an attic to make room for guests. The men and women servants lived in the attic. . . . During all this time, Gloria never went to school...
...years and she knows well enough I am a Monarchist," shouted General Karel. "But what do I have to put up with? She insults the picture of Kaiser Karl* that hangs in our home. Worse than that she is a notorious Nazi. She holds secret Nazi meetings in our attic without my knowledge. Such goings on! I don't feel in such circumstances that my pension is safe...
...designed a black & white sweater for herself. Her friends liked the smart melancholy of black in sportswear, urged her to take an attic in the rue de la Paix and set up as a designer. She did, in 1927. Two years later she moved down two flights. By 1932 her 400 employes were turning out between 7,000 and 8,000 garments a year and Mme Schiaparelli, with no previous experience and only five years' work, was the most discussed fashion-maker in Paris...