Word: hornsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject: "The soap ration doesn't worry me-with the food I get I ain't got the strength to wash." To make up for the shortage of clothing coupons, film studios rented wedding dresses from their costume racks. Thus, this spring, Eileen Dickerson of Hornsey Road, London, was married in a costume first worn by Vivien Leigh in Anna Karenina...
...trade-union building near Marylebone Station, 70 of the city's 6,000 taximen solemnly resolved that what cabbies needed was their own M.P.-someone in the House of Commons to get them : 1 ) a taxi transport board; 2) "every man his own cab." Cried Alf Wheeler of Hornsey, hoarsely: "Give us a bit of the democracy we ruddy cabbies 'ave braved the blackout...
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