Word: croydon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This had been verbally delivered in Berlin by the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who brought it by air from London. As Sir Nevile was leaving Croydon, he added an E. Phillips Oppenheim touch by portentously remarking to cameramen : "You had better be quick-this is the last chance...
...pronounced Ash) lives Sudeten German Nazi No. 1, sharp-nosed, hard-lipped Führer Konrad Henlein. He secretly left As by motorcar last week, sped over the Czechoslovak frontier into Germany, entered a waiting plane and presently alighted on the asphalt of London's great airport Croydon. Several times before Herr Henlein has visited England. Not long ago he pledged to British friends that he was "really democratic at heart," said he would never make his party openly Nazi. He did so a few weeks ago. Last fortnight Führer Henlein denounced his democratic Sudeten German...
Untidy Premier Daladier, who rolls his own cigarets and always has tobacco crumbs in the creases of his suits, last week left Paris with Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet by special plane for Croydon. There he was met by elegant British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax whose cadaverous visage for once beamed. This same Halifax few months ago visited and conferred at length with Hitler, afterwards was reported by close friends shocked and grieved when Germany absorbed Austria. Whether or not events in Austria have taught Lord Halifax things he did not know about Germans, the conference at No. 10 Downing Street...
...November New Zealand-born Arthur Edmund Clouston, who tests airplanes for Britain's Royal Air Force, flew from England to South Africa in 45 hours, an all-time record. Last week Flying Officer Clouston, in a four-year-old De Havilland Comet, flew from Port Darwin, Australia to Croydon, England in three days, 20 hours. In so doing he lopped 28 hours off the previous best time, established by Cathcart Jones and the late Kenneth Waller...
...record than any pilot in the U. S. ¶ One night last week, just after announcing his engagement to a Hampshire typist, Britain's Flying Officer A. E. Clouston, using the De Havilland Comet airplane that won 1934's England-Australia derby, took off from Croydon with Mrs. Betty Kirby-Green, 32-year-old London club hostess, financed by a champagne raffle, speed-bound for the Cape of Good Hope. The weary pair climbed out of their Comet at Capetown 45 hrs. 2 min. later, having traversed the 6,200 miles in 33 hrs. 24 min. less time...