Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young German actress (Max Reinhardt started her at 14), Hilda first learned about destiny, did a good deal to shape her own. She played before Hitler and Göring. In London she met Anthony Eden, and this brought the Gestapo around. She told them what she has since told other snoopers: "I do not make politic." In St. Moritz for the skiing, Hilda was introduced to U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. He helped her get a visa...
...good in Austria." So says the G.I. in Austria, and he means by comparison with the lot of U.S. soldiers stationed elsewhere in postwar Europe. Soldiers would grouse even if detailed to the Garden of Eden and last week, as usual, the G.I.s in Austria were grousing at having to attend a series of high-minded but boring Army lectures. But in their time off, the far from sad young men went on having a good time...
...answer him and he does. Another member wants to know the exact amount of oil and petrol reserves on hand in England, and the Minister of Fuel and Power answers that it would not be in the best interests of the nation to reveal this information. Silver-haired Anthony Eden, handsomer than his pictures make him out to be, rises and wants to know what the Government has done about the Mihailovitch trial in the light of the fact that the British government supported the Chetnik leader for two years. Heavy-set, tough-looking Ernest Bevin lurches to his feet...
Perhaps Dalton did not have all the answers, but opposition to the Dalton budget was perfunctory. Even Conservative speaker Anthony Eden was partially reassured: "The Chancellor has played his part," said he, though he added, "but what are his colleagues doing?" His answer came from Leeds (see below...
...Children & No Eden. What Dickens called his "celestial or diabolical energy" emerged reinforced from his struggle with Maria. As reporter for the Morning Chronicle he stood, note-taking, in Parliament, until his feet swelled, raced over England in post chaises, sometimes wrote all night-and managed at the same time to pen his first, instantly successful literary works: Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers. He gave up journalism after he married Catherine Hogarth, an unambitious, lethargic Scot, who once remarked of the Garden of Eden: "Eh, mon, it would be nae temptation to me to gae rinning about...