Word: croydon
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...usually has a vial of Surrender or Evening in Paris in his pocket, steals an occasional sniff. Singer Richman paid him a reputed $25,000 to go on the trip to England, announced it would be a round-trip affair with only a few hours' pause at Croydon. To safeguard themselves in case the Lady Peace plopped into the ocean, Flyers Richman and Merrill stuffed every cranny of her metal wings and tail with 41,000 Ping-Pong balls to give buoyancy in the water, added publicity value to the trip...
With her Rolls-Royce engines throbbing sweetly, a "Flying British Foreign Office" lofted up from Croydon this week, swept off across the Channel. Aboard were crack Whitehall diplomats fluent in German, and Sir John Simon who was reported to have sighed: "I could talk with Hitler in French if he could talk French...
...years. More amiable than he appears when professionally engaged, Chabot, like most hockey players, has a summer job, as ice cream salesman. His Black Hawks salary is $4,500. When on tour with the team, he wears grey spats, plays Casino with enthusiasm. In Chicago, he lives at the Croydon Hotel with his wife and two children...
Lord Horder of Ashford, Physician to the Prince of Wales and to Prime Minister MacDonald, received a call so urgent that he canceled a radio talk, sped out to Croydon just in time to catch the night plane across the Channel. Next morning, close on the heels of his colleague, Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's own doctor, roared away from London in a chartered plane. At a bedside in Paris Britain's royal physicians met, consulted, pronounced Mrs. Margaret Shenberg Mayer, wife of U. S. Cinemagnate Louis Burt Mayer, ill of double pneumonia...
...Croydon, England, a befogged French freight plane struck a wireless mast, skimmed housetops, wrecked two garages, killed the pilot and mechanic...