Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridge stayed up all week. Central London had a monumental jam; traffic was tangled in three-mile snarls in some areas. London Bridge carried most of the added load, and it took 20 minutes for busses and other vehicles to crawl across it during peak traffic hours. Thousands of Londoners walked-and muttered Billingsgate curses on the Billingsgate strike...
...from Ireland) being tight, when Alec finished Roborough School in the bottomless '30s, he took a ?2-a-week apprenticeship in a London advertising agency. He studied acting at nights and (in the finest tradition of the theater) lived in a garret for a year, mostly on borrowed jam sandwiches and card board soles...
...case of an overflow crowd at the lecture, Eliot's talk will be piped by loud-speaker into New Lecture Hall, so that those unable to jam into the Memorial Hall theatre will still be able to hear the poet...
...biggest cause of the jam, naturally, is a shortage of liners. Only 13 are now in transatlantic operation v. 73 in 1938. Only two of the 13-the 2,314-passenger Queen Elizabeth and the 1,050-passenger America* are large luxury liners. Seven more liners will be added by fall, including the Mauretania (1,153 passengers) this week and the Queen Mary this summer. By year's end 24 will be sailing. Even so, capacity will be far under prewar. U.S. lines, which alone could accommodate 56,515 prewar, now have room for less than...
Eliot's talk will mark the first time that a Morris Gray lecture has been given in Sanders Theatre. The decision to use the Memorial Hall annex apparently arose from University experience last year, when over 900 students tried to jam into Emerson D to hear W. H. Auden...