Word: croydon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like sitting on a fluttering leaf"), eventually made it from Arc to Arch in 12 hr. 17 min. 22 sec. Clutching a pet tortoise named Fangio, Health Faddist Dr. Barbara Moore Pataleewa, 55, set out from Marble Arch on foot, switched to a motorcycle, hopped a plane from Croydon to Le Touquet, on the English Channel, then ran most of the 135 miles to Paris, sipping fruit juice and munching grass along the way. One competitor used souped-up power lawnmowers to and from his plane; another, wise to the ways of city traffic, tried roller skates...
...Bosley is genial as the psychiatrist, who believes that "we all have great unconscious wisdom." Joan Croydon repeats her warm Broadway interpretation of the priest's housekeeper. Adele Thane makes the most of Mrs. Potter's one scene. And Maureen Hurley brings the right amount of neuroticism to the part of Sara. Edmund Roney and Lawrence Spector give capable support as the prim banker and the easy-going roommate...
...hence almost everything else that is good. Last week in a tidy suburban cottage outside London, a handsome, long-legged law student gazed at his comely,wife of eight years and murmured a heartfelt "Pula" Soon afterward he canceled his plans for a December bar examination, put his Croydon cottage up for sale and made plans to go home. "From now on," he said, "I'm going to be a farmer...
...feast day of St. Scholastica the Virgin, and a bunch of the boys from Oxford University were out on the town. At the tavern called Swyndlestock, they ordered wine, but when John de Croydon brought it to them, they decided that it was no good. De Croydon said it was; the scholars said it wasn't. To emphasize their point, they threw it in the tavern keeper's face. With that gesture-just 600 years ago-began the bloodiest town-and-gown riot in the history of Oxford...
...floods and gale winds appeared in full fury. The freak week began with the biggest, blackest cloud of smog within London's memory, suddenly enveloping the nation's noontime capital in midnight darkness. Pedestrians scurried for shelter, and one bearded old prophet paraded in front of Croydon Town Hall crying aloud, "The end of the world has come." The thickest snows in eight years covered all British counties except Cornwall, which had instead the worst floods of half a century. The National Automobile Association officially reported "the worst mixture of terrible road conditions we can remember." The Royal...