Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Right is Reader Barker. Concluded last week, the Newport Hospital Benefit Fair's male beauty race, decided by ballots costing 5? each, went to Nathaniel Peter Hill...
...week some of Britain's greatest dailies, including Viscount Rothermere's Evening News and Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Reason: the censors who snip out offending paragraphs before newsorgans can be offered for sale on British stands had failed to snip out accounts of the Constitution Hill incident in which a revolver hurtled from the hand of Jerome Bannigan and fell beneath the hoofs of King Edward's horse† (TIME, July...
Just as the Times foretold so it occurred last week. What the Times did not foresee was that just as King Edward at the head of his troops passed down Constitution Hill, a crank with a pistol threatened to end His Majesty's personal liberty...
...clubfooted, baldish young Scot who prefers to be known as George Andrew McMahon, left his home in Paddington. Author of a series of articles entitled Unmoral Girls, Vacuum Cleaner Vampires, Is Nudism Immoral? Why I Shall Not Marry, Too Old at Thirty, McMahon ran an herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon. At 9 o'clock that morning a pair of Scotland Yard detectives dropped around...
...take half a day off to act as a special constable along the line of the King's march. He put on the flat-topped cap that distinguished Britain's part-time policemen from the helmeted professionals, and took up his post part way down Constitution Hill. He did not know it, but George Andrew McMahon was standing almost behind...