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...days later an outraged posse arrived at Susanna Wells's popular brothel in Enfield Wash (a section of London), house they found a raffish crew: susanna Wells herself; Sal Howit, her daughter; a young whore called Virtue Hall; a laborer and his tippling wife; and a hideous old gypsy named Mary Squires. But for all its ominous air, the house failed to match Elizabeth's description. The only room that could possibly have been her "empty loft" was thick with ancient, unbroken cobwebs. One window was boarded, but there was another not even latched. There were no footprints...
...weeks and, frankly, we hope to learn some thing more than where to buy lipsticks and how to cross legs for the American photographers. We do not think lipsticks are important enough to be a subject of comment of the American press. More important to us are the Enfield rifles we learned to shoot, and the hand grenades we learned to throw...
Lazybones. Two years ago the Robesons moved into a big colonial house with a swimming pool and tennis court at Enfield, Conn. (Cracked their repairman: "He'll have to sing a lot of songs to heat this place.") Once dubbed a lazy man by his wife, Robeson embodies a queer definition of laziness. Besides acting, cinemacting (Song of Freedom, King Solomon's Mines, Show Boat), carrying Water Boy to the ends of the earth, broadcasting and making hundreds of gramophone recordings, Robeson has been working on a vast treatise about African culture, has tackled an invention for improving...
...crack pilots, to make the first actual attempt on great sprawling London. This armada split, half aiming at the London docks and Woolwich Arsenal on the east, the other half aiming at munitions stores on the city's southwestern edge. They hit the suburbs of Tilbury, North-fleet, Enfield, Barking, Purfleet, killed and maimed an unannounced number of civilians, did small military damage. Captive balloons and a terrific anti-aircraft barrage walled them away from London's heart. German observers in reconnaissance planes gave the world a running radio ac count of this exploit. They exaggerated enormously. Excerpts...
...been a week of swift decision: he announced the release by executive order of Navy planes which, to be resold to the Allies, were flown at once to Buffalo, en route to Canada; by the same device he had made available more than 500,000 Lee-Enfield rifles, machine guns, ammunition, 755. But the great strain of the week had been his last-minute efforts to prevent Mussolini's attack. He smiled and waved when the crowd at the Charlottesville station hailed his arrival. Then, through the streets of quiet Charlottesville, he drove to the Memorial Gymnasium...