Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lightweight houses will be prefabricated on assembly lines by plane builders already feeling the pinch of the transition to peace (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Blackburn Aircraft Co.). More important, they will draw off much of Great Britain's and Canada's huge aluminum and magnesium production which has been more than quadrupled during the war, and which might otherwise have had but a piddling peacetime market...
Stingers. In Lewiston, Idaho,Apiarist W. H. Bristol fed his young bees a concoction of sulfathiazole and syrup, fondly hoped their sting might now be antiseptic...
...Approval," in which Brook appears as producer-director-star, presents what could be a credit to multi-talented geniuses Welles, Chaplin, and Coward. Taking up the broken down aristocracy where Coward left off, Brook stars in the role of George, the ninth Duke of Bristol...
...story : the impoverished and wolfish Duke of Bristol (Clive Brook), his impoverished and meek friend Richard (Ro land Culver), a statuesque American pickle heiress (Googie Withers) enamored of the Duke, and a heartless, sporty widow named Mrs. Wislack (Beatrice Lillie) abandon London's high life for the widow's island shooting lodge in Scotland. Mrs. Wislack's shocking intention is to take cringing Richard for a month "on approval" before she decides whether to make an honest and rich...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, bald, bespectacled British humorist (Thank You, Jeeves; Quick Service, etc.) captured in France by the Nazis in 1940, was found alive & well in Paris' Hotel Bristol, eager to return to London to dispel the rumors that he had been a Nazi sympathizer.* He called his five broadcasts on the German radio in 1941 "a terrible mistake," explained that he intended them "in the spirit of the British soldier who spoke on the radio to get messages back home." Wodehouse said he was released from prison camp "mainly because I had reached the age of 60," then...