Word: holborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society of The Octavians, several hundred Britishers who have banded together to perpetuate the memory of the Duke as Edward VIII, were determined to accord the day more formal recognition. Some 250 members, largely middle-aged men and women, crowded into a second-rate restaurant in London's Holborn district for a commemorative dinner and dance. From the French Riviera, where he is summering with the Duchess, the Duke sent greetings...
...House of England. They include mines, forests, farmlands, beaches and rivers the length & breadth of Britain as well as the King's "rights" on fish taken from his rivers, coal from his Welsh mines. To him belong London's New Gallery and His Majesty's Theatres, Holborn and Criterion restaurants, Carlton Hotel, the southern side of Piccadilly Circus and both sides of Regent Street, pieces of Kennington slums, Finchley, Hampstead, Dalston and swank Carlton House Terrace...
...thinks her Empire still is the Strand and Holborn Hill, And she didn't think of Sergeant Whats-isname...