Word: brandons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brandon Hill, in Bristol, two huge cannon, which for 87 years had pointed their empty mouths over the town, were being dismounted. They were Russian cannon, which Bristol lads had captured in the Crimean War, at the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, and had brought home as trophies. But now Bristol lads were fighting on Russia's side, and the cannon, heavy with good iron, could be melted down to be made into modern weapons...
...popular Brandon Thomas farce from which the screen play was adapted is one of the most successful stage plays of all times with more performances on the professional and amateur stage than any play except Hamlet. The well-known lead is a crank at Oxford who in his tenth year as an undergraduate tries to help a couple of pals out of a hole by impersonating the aunt of one of them. As a chaperone who needs a chaper-one herself, ah himself, Benny spends the evening trying to get into the amorous clutches of his pals' financees...
...Marshall M. Milton 28-year-old Episcopal rector of Brandon Parish, Prince George County, Va., got a year's leave to ferry bombers to Britain...
...photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel Castle near Glasgow. Dungavel is the seat of 38-year-old Wing Commander Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, 11th Duke of Brandon...
Charley's Aunt (by Brandon Thomas, produced by Day Tuttle & Richard Skinner). One of the more notable howls of dramatic history rose in the '903-a farce written by an English actor who knew his trade. It still holds fourth place for consecutive performances (1,466 during its original London run), after Tobacco Road, Abie's Irish Rose, Chu-Chin-Chow. But it has been played oftener, all told, than any drama except Hamlet, was once presented simultaneously by 44 companies, has been translated into at least 20 languages, is the only play that has been rendered...