Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Opera's famed Actor-Director Carl Ebert. Germany in those days, however, was rocking wildly. Bing, whose family for generations had been Roman Catholics (although one great-grandmother was Jewish), quickly got fed up with the Nazis and in 1933 left the country. With Ebert, he landed in England on a rolling Sussex Downs estate, and there the two founded the Glyndebourne Festival, the home of some of the finest Mozart performances heard anywhere. When World War II interrupted that idyl, Bing took a job as a coupon clerk in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square...
Palace Revolution. Copley may not have appreciated Twigg-Smith's stubborn heritage. The Advertiser's founder, Henry M. Whitney, scion of a New England missionary family, was the kind of crusader who considered it his duty to campaign against the hula as an economic evil which distracted men from their work. Toward the turn of the century, when Hawaii's famous Castle family held a controlling stock interest, the present publisher's grandfather, Lorrin A. Thurston, was put in charge. He, too, was a campaigner, known for his fiery editorials in favor of U.S. annexation...
...Britain a line of credit that stood at $750 million this summer, before the pound withstood its most severe assault from speculators (the idea is that Britain would do the same for the U.S. if the dollar were to run into trouble). Of the total, the Bank of England had to call for $300 million. Meanwhile, other central banks had provided Britain with another $ 1 billion...
State and Revolution, and Robert Blatchford's Merrie England...
Attendant SprriK The Cotters' England is also a very odd place; it is a place with a socialist government dedicated to equal bureaucracy for all, and at the same time a place where Stonehenge during the midsummer solstice is officially closed to tourists in favor of ac credited witches, warlocks and their attendant spirits...