Word: hammersmith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wary after threats from all nine sentenced men, London last week put a strong guard around the house of the judge who presided at the trial. But I. R. A. terror, like poison ivy, breaks out in strange places. Late that night, motorists and pedestrians going sleepily home over Hammersmith Bridge, the farthest up-Thames within London, were rocked by a sudden Boom! Suspension chains snapped, a support-girder sagged, windows 100 yards away on the north bank crashed to the street. Bam! In mid-bridge another blast shook the 52-year-old structure from tower to tower. The whole...
Shaped like an S, the Thames course gives the shell on the Surrey side the advantage at the start but, to win, it must be at least three lengths ahead at Hammersmith Bridge where the shell on the Middlesex side takes the inner lane until the race is over. When last week, instead of being ahead at Hammersmith, Cambridge was amazingly a few feet behind, spectators on the banks knew how the race must end. For a few lengths, Cambridge's U. S. coxswain, Hunter, and Oxford's Merifield-replacing 56-lb. Hart Massey who was so minute...
Oxford got the better start. At Craven's Steps, Cambridge, pulling with an easier stroke, was three quarters of a length in front. The Cambridge coxswain, Duckworth, hugged the Surrey bank for smoother water. Close to shore, his shell got better run, led by three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths...
...that most foolish, vain, and impotent of all impostors, a man who sought the whole world over 'looking for a place to write', when, he knew now with every naked, brutal penetration of his life 'the place to write' was Brooklyn, Boston, Hammersmith, or Kansas-anywhere on earth, so long as the heart, the power, the faith, the desperation, the bitter and unendurable necessity, and the naked courage were there inside him all the time...
Drawings from The Beggars' Opera as designed by Claude Lovat Fraser which sent British theatregoers rushing out to Hammersmith...