Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elections, there was much swinging but few hits. Labor, humiliated in its foreign policy by the Iran withdrawal, and hurt at home by high prices and food shortages, tried to make peace the issue, and Churchill a warmonger. (Churchill on World War III: "The main reason that I remain in public life is my desire to prevent it.") Labor had a catchy slogan: "Whose finger do you want on the trigger? Attlee's or Churchill's?" Attlee, driven by his wife in their little family Hillman, set out on an eight-day campaign trip, singing this same theme...
Bring Back the Block. Charles Sanson I was succeeded by his son, who was in turn officially succeeded by his seven-year-old son. Young Charles III had already shown an enthusiastic talent for his inherited role by hanging tight to the legs of many unwilling clients while his father whacked away at their necks. A temporary headsman was appointed to act as regent until Charlie's arms grew strong enough to swing an ax. By the time he reached h's majority, the Sanson dynasty had become a kind of headsman's peerage. Brother Nicolas became...
Born. To Tyrone Power III, 37, swashbuckling hero of Hollywood historical romances (Prince of Foxes, Blood and Sand), and his second wife, Linda Christian Power (real name: Blanca Rosa Welter), 27, retired starlet: their first child, a daughter. Name: Romina Francesca. Weight...
...those days, the library was only 41 years old-a private place of study, established by men like Thomas Carlyle who wanted something more convenient and less crowded than the British Museum. Mr. Cox never knew Mr. Carlyle; nor did he know such early readers as Napoleon III and Lord Macaulay. But he used to chat with Gladstone ("When you opened a door for him, he always raised his hat"), and he remembers Herbert Spencer struggling over his Principles of Sociology and Lord Granville queueing up for a book on the Irish Parliament...
...Cities (1938), and The Condition of Man (1944). In these, Mumford plotted directions for the development of the machine, the city, and society. In The Conduct of Life he undertakes the more ambitious task of creating human beings fit to live in the structures of Volumes I to III...