Word: brixton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston, Herbert of 102-47 65 Road. Forest Hills, Flushing Hills High School. Boden, Robert Walter of 9 Brixton Road. Garden City: Garden City High, Garden City Dawkins, Charles Nelson of 124 Madison Avenue, New York, New York; Story Brook School. Story Brook...
...play . . . There has never been a case ... of such a scandalous and wicked character. This has been done, not as an error of judgment, but as a matter of policy, pandering to sensationalism [to increase] circulation . . ." The Mirror was fined $40,000. Bolam was sentenced to three months in Brixton Prison (where Haigh is waiting trial), the first editor to be imprisoned under the law in 48 years...
...cheerily on Eros' neck and wings, twanged gaily on the god's bowstring, and provided one of the week's merriest, wackiest newspictures. After 40 minutes, London's firemen brought the miscreant down to earth. Next day both celebrants were resting quietly; the plumber in Brixton jail, the god in the hands of statue doctors. Damage to the god: $192. Damages to the plumber: three months in stir, and cost of the repairs...
...diet, were rationed-three pounds per week per Briton. "If we'd done nothing," said Food Minister John Strachey, "some time in the spring potatoes would have run out, which would have been a catastrophe." Some British housewives felt the catastrophe had happened. "Many of my customers," said Brixton Greengrocer George Kingston, "went away crying when they saw their three-pound ration...
...also cognizant that the penalty for treason is death. Joyce had been poorly paid by the Nazis for his treasonable broadcasts, was now penniless. Under the Poor Prisoners' Defence Act, he was certified as entitled to free defense counsel. Then he was whisked to Brixton Prison in a Black Maria. On arrival, he had said: "So this is Brixton." "Yes," snapped his guard, "not Belsen...