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Britons are given to labeling themselves with strange-sounding titles indicative of their respective towns, viz.: Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous. There are others throughout Great Britain, often piquant and quaint, like Liverpool, Liverpudlian; Blackpool, Blackpudlian, and perhaps best of all Giggleswick, Giggleswicket...
Hero-worshipping men-children of Giggleswick School, Yorkshire, were addressed last fortnight by Lord Byng of Vimy, 65, the grizzled War hero who is about to become Police Commissioner at London's famed Scotland Yard. Even at Giggleswick little boys know that Scotland Yard has been rocked by scandalous exposures (TIME, July 16) and that the weighty War prestige of Lord Byng is counted on to steady matters down. Especially do naughty little Giggleswickers know about Miss Irene Savidge, who was made to show her pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused...
Their Majesties gave timely notice of an excursion by all members of the immediate Royal Family to the town of Giggleswick, where the first total eclipse of the sun to be visible in England during Their Majesties' lifetime was to be ceremoniously observed...
...phenomena of Nature as eclipses, tens of thousands of excursionists aped the expected royal pilgrimage. At the last moment threatening weather caused Queen Mary to remain snug at Buckingham Palace. The King, not so easily daunted, made a short excursion from London out to Newmarket. There, 170 miles fom Giggleswick, His Majesty rode out upon his horse at dawn and ruefully observed only a thin crescent of light in a cloudy sky at the moment of eclipse...
Clouds and fog thwarted observers in many places, but not in Giggleswick, England (pop. 950), whither gathered 70,000 and Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal. Shortly before the time that the eclipse was due-which scientists miscalculated by three seconds-the clouds over Giggleswick parted, making way for the heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern...
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