Word: hampstead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever possible, city dwellers jogged off on weekends. On Annunciation Day 5,000 Swedes took excursion boats across the Sound to Copenhagen. British railways ran 1,500 extra trains for Easter holiday traffic-last year the only extra trains had been for late-shift workers. Londoners picnicked on Hampstead Heath; a short distance from town ten carnival shows were running at once, complete with carousels and gypsy sideshows. Frenchmen made for the country too. Pierre Chander, who works at the War Ministry, took his family to Fontainebleau. They visited the chateau and went for walks in the forest. Back...
Having returned to the Anglican faith of his childhood, Believer Joad worships regularly at his parish church in Hampstead or at the church near his Hampshire country place. But he has lost none of his saucy skill at dialectic. He explained last week: "When war came, the existence of evil hit me in the face. . . . Human progress is possible, but so unlikely. People don't know how to conceive it." Wrote Pessimist Joad shortly after the end of the war: "I see now that evil is endemic in man, and that the Christian doctrine of original sin expresses...
...week of Princess Elizabeth's wedding, worked late at his suite at the Dorchester. There had been a weekend with Prime Minister Attlee at Chequers, and a Savoy reception by the Canada Club. Once Mr. King slipped away to visit his portrait painter, Artist Frank Salisbury, at Hampstead. There, after dinner, Mrs. Salisbury had played his favorite, Handel's Largo...
Only once did he unbend, at a bibulous evening in the Hampstead House apartment of Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there...
...Hampstead a bank clerk expressed the thoughts of thousands : "If I'd known about this, I would have cleared out last year. South Africa or Australia...