Word: carvell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dalton strolled into the House. Carvel went to a telephone and dictated 55 fateful words to his paper. By the time Dalton had been booming for 13 minutes (but before he had mentioned any specific tax changes), the Star's "stop-press" column told of Britain's new taxes...
Offense. One day last week Hugh Dalton strode confidently across the tessellated inner lobby of the House of Commons; he knew that he held Britain's spotlight. In his battered red leather dispatch box were the secrets of Britain's interim budget. Burly, greying John Lees Carvel, political correspondent for London's evening Star, cheerily hailed his old friend Dalton as he approached the door of the House, asked jokingly about the budget. Dalton threw a jovial arm around Carvel's shoulders and, remembering that the journalist liked a nip now & then, said: "John, your whiskey...
Died. Winston Churchill, 75, U.S. author (no kin to the famed Briton †) of once best-selling historical novels (Richard Carvel, The Crisis), to which he abruptly wrote an end in 1917 (he wrote one other book in 1940, The Uncharted Way, a tract on religious philosophy): in Winter Park...
Married. Norma Talmadge, 49, oldtime star of silent films and Dr. Carvel James, 39, Los Angeles physician; she for the third time (No. i: Producer Joseph Schenck; No. 2: Comedian George Jessel), he for the second; in Las Vegas...
...Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant not a British statesman but a U.S. author (no kin) whose historical novels of early America (Richard Carvel, The Crisis, etc.) were best-sellers...