Word: croydon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a sophisticated Manhattan housewife last week, tardily opening her October bills, blinked as she scanned her laundry statement. Instead of the familiar Croydon Trousseau Laundry, the billhead read: Shields-Wood Service. Proprietors: Francis X. Shields, Sidney B. Wood...
...first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through to the final curtain...
Visiting General Gamelin in France when news of the pact broke, Elder Statesman Churchill caught a plane for Croydon, dashed off a brilliant article for the London Daily Mirror, At the Eleventh Hour, on his way home. "Along all frontiers hundreds of thousands of men, armed with the most deadly weapons ever known, and behind them millions more, await the dread signal. There is only one man who can give it. There he sits, torn by passion and foreboding, by appetites and fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left...
...Croydon, England, Mrs. Julia Baxter appeared in Bankruptcy Court. Her reasons: on a ?500 loan she recovered only ?175; crooked employes ruined her two business ventures; she lost ?22 gambling; burglars stole her jewelry. Asked why she had not sought her husband's financial advice, she replied: I found I had married a man with no brains...
...last week, with wheels down, another Frobisher dropped down on roomy Croydon. Its legs collapsed, and it slid ignominiously to a stop on its belly. This time the passengers, 21 of them, were plain scared, thoroughly shaken up. Imperial imperturbably grounded the 234-mile-an-hour ships to get the bugs out of the landing gear. At week's end the ships were restored to service. The mishap, said bland Imperial, was "due to the unusual state ol the airdrome surface, not to a mechanical defect." Nineteen-year-old Croydon is one of the oldest and best-tended...