Word: essexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jabbed through coastal defenses and rained white rockets, indicating hits, on interior manufacturing centres, including Norfolk, Suffolk and North London. Territorials, firing anti-aircraft rockets, were unable to prevent "Eastland" squads from roaring over London. As a crowning gesture, one "Eastland" squadron located the defenders' GHQ at Hornchurch, Essex, gleefully swooped down to the attack just as the Air Secretary and his official party were making their inspection. A touch of grim realism was added to the mock war as seven planes crashed, six fliers were killed...
Copy of a higher grade was made at James Island, where historically-minded Franklin Roosevelt, poring over Commander David Porter's Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (1813), ordered a search (unsuccessful) for the grave of Lieut. John S. Cowan of Porter's frigate Essex, who died there in a pistol duel...
Died, Frances, Countess of Warwick, 76, Socialist, philanthropist. British authoress who prophesied that George V would be England's last king and Edward, now Duke of Windsor, an admirable first president (TIME, March 17, 1930); at Dunmow, Essex...
...Ostruga, Yugoslavia, three English tourists from Chelmsford, Essex, impulsively bought brides in the marriage market, married them in the local Orthodox Church. Sosta Stankovich, matchmaker, craftily charged them tourist prices. Prettiest bride. Miliza Radosavlgevich, went for $400. Ordinary price for an Ostruga bride...
...from most British family novels in one main respect. Instead of portraying the conflict of old and new social forces, it poses a more strictly moral theme: the evil consequences of parents trying to realize their unfulfilled ambitions in their sons. The worse example of deluded fatherhood is William Essex (narrator of the story), who rises from the Manchester slums to fame as a novelist, determines that his only son, Oliver, shall have all the advantages he missed. His friend, Dermot O'Riorden, dedicates his son Rory to the cause of Irish revolution, which he laid aside when...