Word: blitzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squirearchy's Decline. The Headmistress, tenth and latest of the Thirkell line, is just like the other nine. When Headmistress Madeleine Sparling evacuated her blitz-threatened London girls' school to Harefield Park in Barsetshire, impoverished Squire Belton of Harefield welcomed the fat rent she paid for his manor. But he suffered an anguish of snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing...
...population little more than one-third that of the U.S., had suffered as many casualties-from its armed forces alone-as had the U.S. in three years. Britain's toll: 176,081 killed, 38,275 missing, 193,788 wounded, 154,968 prisoners of war. In addition, the blitz and the buzz-bomb had taken a toll of 57,298 killed (including 7,250 children and 23,757 women), and injured 78,818 more. No question, the bloody 'eroes...
Kiss the Blood off My Hands was published by Jarrolds in England in 1940, shortly before Jarrolds was bombed out in the blitz. It was the first novel of 37-year-old Gerald Butler, a onetime chemist who is now director of an advertising firm, and it sold 232,000 copies. He has since written three more novels...
Married. Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, 48, swank-loving, smart-alecking Conservative M.P., who in 1938 claimed half of his estranged wife's $400,000 income, later divorced her for adultery, was blasted for "beachcombing in Honolulu" during the blitz as guest of Doris Duke Cromwell; and Angela Williams, daughter of a British Naval Commander; in London...
...crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...