Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it became known that Sir William Watson, British poet (The Heralds of the Dawn, Selected poems), was ill and in penury, a national subscription was started for him. Some of the signatories: Hugh Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, John Galsworthy, Eden Phillpotts, George Bernard Shaw...
...Lloyd George might just as well have said, ". . . as if I were Mrs. Elizabeth Tarratt." Mrs. Tarratt is Chancellor Snowden's 85-year-old next door neighbor in Surrey. When aged Mrs. Tarratt built a fence on property adjoining Mr. Snowden's Eden Lodge, the wizened Chancellor promptly had it chopped down, declared it was on public land. Mrs. Tarratt went to the rural council, received a writ declaring that the land was not public but her very own. Last week she ordered a new, indestructible wire fence erected, dared Mr. Snowden to lay a finger...
...went through bankruptcy to settle the company's suit for $200,000 damages. Directing All Quiet on the Western Front he was knocked unconscious by a piece of plaster blown from a dynamited church. He is fat, witty, a brilliant organizer. Some of his pictures: The Garden of Eden, The Racket, The Betrayal...