Word: cuthberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cuthbert de Hoghton, 63, holder of the second oldest baronetcy in England (created in 1611), married in Lancashire his dark, rosy-cheeked secretary, Philomena Simmons, 19, who had come to help him with his mail after his first wife died in October. The bride was given away by her brother, a coal company clerk. Said stout Sir Cuthbert: "I have always been proud that I am a true Tory democrat...
...food, bathing beaches and cinemas, there was a stir of protest in London. The British Communist Party used the incident to claim that the Fascists rioted because they have friends in the Government, pointed a finger at War Secretary Captain David Margesson and Minister for Aircraft Production John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon...
...many Britons, like Americans, have made no bones of saying that they hoped Germany and Russia would annihilate each other, that both could go to hell. Fortnight ago no less a cog in the aid-to-Russia mechanism than sleek, sporting Minister for Aircraft Production Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon was accused by Secretary Jack Tanner of the big Amalgamated Engineering Union of expressing just such sentiments...
Nelson received a head wound at the Nile which he was convinced was mortal. But he survived for Trafalgar seven years later. There, just west of Gibraltar, 27 British ships bore down on 33 of the enemy in two columns, one led by Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood Collingwood, the other by Nelson himself aboard his 100-gun flagship Victory. Nelson flashed his famous signal: "England expects every man to do his duty." Collingwood struck the enemy's rear, Nelson the centre. The British lost no ships, in the end captured or destroyed 22 of the Frenchmen. Nelson himself was mortally...
...Minister of Information and then as Minister of Transport, was tossed a baronetage and for equally inexplicable reasons named to a new post as Minister of Works and Public Buildings, charged with the eventual rebuilding of London. In as new Minister of Transport went sporty Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, holder of the Royal Aero Club's No. 1 flying certificate, twice Parliamentary Secretary to the Transport Ministry, who is known around his greyhound racing tracks (in 1937 they paid 40% dividends) as "Brab...