Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British casualty lists was Actor Leslie Howard, 46, victim of an automobile accident in a London blackout. Actor Howard's injuries included a fractured jaw, three broken front teeth, unspecified damages to brow and chest...
Selfridge's in 1937 made a $4,000,000 profit on sales of some $65,000,000. Last year saw the profit more than halved. This September London's retail trade dropped 30% under 1938. People bought blankets, clothing, boots & shoes, blackout materials but not much else. Even J. Lyons & Co., Ltd. (teashops) in the West End felt the pinch, for the first time in years cut its dividend from...
...glass ranged the Lalique shades from frosty blue to smoky amber, the Lalique styles from severe to elaborate, the Lalique sculpture from playful to precise. In many an onlooker's mind was the Rond-Point on Paris' Champs-Elysées, where Lalique fountains, illuminated in pre-blackout evenings, sent showers of crystal drops curving high...
...most English writers remained in England, where the vast armory of English literature was being mobilized along with the rest of the Empire. In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens. Publishers adopted slogans like "Always carry your gas mask; always carry a book." The London Library resolved to stay open. Publisher Geoffrey Faber publicly suggested that writing a book was "the most valuable piece of national service which an author can render...
Earle's book, "Blackout", will be published early in November by J. B. Lippincott Company. It reports his experiences in London during the pre-war flurry, in provincial France during the "war of nerves" and his observations in Germany at the peak of tension...