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Word: dumbleton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dumbleton Hall in Evesham, the First Lord of the Admiralty and Lady Monsell forgot happily all about the London Naval Conference which is doubly deadlocked (TIME, Dec. 30). Monsell's second daughter is learning Tibetan and had many interesting things to tell. The hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Chamberlain did not go home to gloomy Birmingham, but holidayed in Dorking with a large and merry party. Up in Scotland the superstition that one's New Year will be unlucky unless the first person across one's doorstep is a dark-haired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Headaches After Holiday | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

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