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South of the Thames people from the boroughs of Lambeth and Camberwell went to the tunnel which they call The Deep, peeled oranges, played cards, darned socks, curled each other's hair beneath the ancient arches, eventually disrobing because of massed body heat. Some 18,000 were sleeping there...
When, three years later, he wrote "Monday I was free to climb over the darned walls and spend a night alone in the Parthenon," a lot of water had gone under the bridge. His Royal Road to Romance was a raving bestseller, and Richard's whole trip was a...
Identifying big industry with "reaction," Bridges denied responsibility for the recent labor strife on the West coast and asserted, "Every fight in the industrial field is caused not by the attempts of the unions to increase their gains but by the attempts to take away what we have already got...
Birthdays. Hoosier Humorist George Ade, his 74th; with a quip: "This birthday isn't very welcome, but I guess it can't be avoided"; George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, his 46th; ditto: "Darned if I get any fun out of birthdays."
WATS. The female uniform most often seen tramping about the British countryside is the khaki of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (tunic, skirt, a cap that has upfolded ear-protecting flaps). Formed in 1938, the WATS are a revival of War I's Women's Army...