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...Britain, during the blitz, special airraid shelters were created for pregnant women and invalids. One night, an airraid warden called down into the depths of the Piccadilly Circus tube station: "I say, are there any pregnant women there?" Instantly came back your answer: "Gorblimey, guv'nor, give us a chawnce-we've only been here seven minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 3, 1965 | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...Gorblimey, mate," exclaimed the homeward-bound worker when he spotted the young man slumped against the wall at the Lee Bank Road bus stop in Birmingham. "What have you been up to?" It was just 7:45 p.m. two days before Christmas; but despite the young man's filthy clothes and his rumpled blond hair, he was clearly not drunk. "I've had a fall," he explained in a clear voice. "I'll be all right as soon as I get on the bus." Two or three minutes later, the young man boarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Man on Bus No. 8 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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