Word: bolton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study of the pub and of its place in the life of Britain was recently published in London. The Pub and the People was the work of an organization called Mass-Observation, which for three years scrutinized the Lancashire cotton-mill town of Bolton. Sample observation: A man aged 66 wrote: "Why I drink Beer, because it is food, drink, and medicine to me, my Bowels work regular as clockwork, and I think that is the Key to health, also lightening affects me a lot, I get such a thirst from Lightening, and full of Pins and Needles...
...House committee hearings Representative Frances P. Bolton of Ohio had said there need be no worry about feminine morale: "A laundress is a laundress and glad to be one. . . . Lots of women washed for the Army the last time and never had any particular garb and never had recognition...
...still well attended, but the Home Office restricts attendance to half the ground capacity on account of possible air raids. This season's biggest match, England v. Scotland, will be played on April 18 at Glasgow, where the grounds can hold 150,000. Last week the firemen of Bolton, Lancashire caused a minor scandal when they borrowed the National Fire Service tender to make a 278-mile round trip for a soccer game with the firemen of Dumfries, Scotland...
Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton of Ohio plumped for a military women's auxiliary under Army control, replied to the suggestion that women might tire of all-work-and-no-glamor: "There is nothing the women of the country will welcome more than to have that word 'glamor' taken away...
...familiar to Broadway for a generation, with her hard little face and her soft, flabby hips. Theatre needs all the expert make-up and massage that Playwrights Bolton & Maugham know how to apply, all the stage presence and vivacity that Cornelia Otis Skinner brings to the role of the brummagem heroine. Even so, it's not very pleasant...