Word: dulwich
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...straw ballot." Everyone in England and Wales is being asked to answer. Every family in Dulwich, for instance, is being visited, and worried for a reply. Percentage polls run up as high as 98% of all the people over 18- better than any election ever got. My guess is that about 55% of all English & Welsh citizens will have voted in the end, on the average of the whole country...
...LONELY LADY OF DULWICH-Maurice Baring-Knopf...
Maurice Baring is old-school without being oldfashioned. Urbane without pomp, sentimental but only sensibly so, he has the happy faculty of appearing as a citizen of the world without showing off the labels on his baggage. His latest novel, The Lonely Lady of Dulwich, is a little book (150 pages) but it compasses a full human career without skimping. Deliberately, nostalgically reminiscent, it has the small fragrance of an old sachet...
...first represented in Parliament, as a Unionist, the Blackfriars Division of Glasgow, but lost his seat in 1906; the same year he successfully contested the Dulwich division of Camberwell which he represented from 1906-1910; after a futile attempt to carry the business section of Manchester he was elected the member for the Bootle Division, Lanes., 1911-18; in 1918 he became the Member for the Central Division of Glasgow, which he represented until his death...