Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand Irish Mail chugging from Holyhead on the shores of the choppy Irish Sea. At 3 a.m. it was the glamorous, slightly mysterious Night Scot, running up past the misty green Lake District to salty Glasgow on the Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
...mirrors of the Imperial Hotel's grand ballroom, 300 of his followers could watch themselves sipping orange pop and looking bored, as the mullah on the stage mumbled a long recitation from the Koran. Then Jinnah rose. Smiling his death's-head smirk, he held up a hand to quiet the thunderous applause. Instantly, it stopped...
...Jessica, who eloped to Spain, married Winston Churchill's nephew, the late Esmond Romilly (missing in action since 1941), and is now married to a left-wing San Francisco lawyer; 4) Pamela, wife of Derek Ainslie Jackson, a British physicist who has ridden as a jockey in the Grand National Steeplechase...
Wigs & Tories. But even Linda's ducal grand passion conforms to the general tone of The Pursuit of Love-which plays on the surface of life so wittily and deftly that it makes far better fiction than, say, the leaden soundings of James T. Farrell. It excels in fluent, natural descriptions of English country life (that peculiar combination of rigorous and relaxed living), in its feminine lightness, and in its sharp summings-up of occasional characters-such as prematurely balding Lord Fort William, whose "hair seemed to be slipping off backwards, like an eiderdown in the night," and Linda...
...scarcely ever hear of Protestants. The boy's chief experiences involve neighborhood toughs, his jolly dollop of a grandfather, and his dog, an old party who dies under a cloud (after biting a neighbor's daughter). All concerned murder the king's English, but in a grand, Gaelic manner...