Word: croydon
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...Breaking Point. In London, Edward Finney called the Croydon police station to announce: "I just threw four bricks through the windows of the Inland Revenue Office. I am fed up with paying income...
Scuttled. In Croydon, England, Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell took a careful second look at his notes, abruptly ended his speech before the Royal Navy Old Comrades Association with a confession: "By mistake I brought a shopping list my wife gave...
...King's doing," he cried. "God bless the King!" After the first World War, in which he served as an R.A.F. observer, Alfred had opened up his own pastry shop in London's Ealing. In World War II, Alfred joined the R.A.F. again. His house at Croydon was bombed one night while Alfred was at home on leave. Alfred, his wife and their six children survived, although Alfred was left with a crippled leg, his wife with a weak heart. After the war the Ministry of Labor rated Alfred as "unemployable." Four times he had applied...
...North Croydon is a cluster of geometrically dreary, determinedly middle-class suburbs on the southwestern fringes of London. Its mile after mile of dull, red brick houses are inhabited by shopkeepers, civil servants, office workers. Since the constituency was formed in 1918, North Croydon has been doggedly Conservative...
Even so, Tories faced this week's North Croydon by-election with trepidation. In 1945, their man had just squeaked in by 607 votes against strong Labor and Liberal opposition. And Liberals were again entering a candidate, glamorous war hero Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, whose "damn the government" platform would tend to sap Tory strength...