Word: kentish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From England, where denunciation had been loudest, now came a "defense" more destructive than any attack so far. Wrote Author Harold Nicolson, in whose "Long Barn" estate at the foot of the Kentish weald Lindbergh stayed during his English exile: "He emerged from that ordeal (the 1932 kidnap-murder of his son) with a loathing for publicity that was almost pathological. He identified the outrage to his private life first with the popular press and then . . . with freedom of speech and then, almost, with freedom. He began to loathe democracy, . . . His self-confidence thickened into arrogance and his convictions hardened...
Director Hitchcock announced he found U. S. food excellent, especially the ice cream. Said he, "Such ice cream I would not trade for a steak & kidney pudding, a boiled silversmith with carrots & dumplings, or a Kentish chicken pudding. In fact, I like...
...just won first prize in a Paris lottery, Carol Howard (Ann Harding) receives a prospective tenant in the person of Gerald Lovell (Basil Rathbone), whose worldly manners soon so charm her that she marries him. After a gay honeymoon in Paris, they settle down together in a Kentish cottage, paid for with funds which Gerald has borrowed from his wife. Life in the cottage is idyllic until one day Carol chances to open the door into the cellar darkroom where Gerald practices his hobby of photography. After the storm of rage which her visit provokes, audiences are not totally unprepared...
When they ventured out on their parish rounds village clergymen in the remoter parts of Kent, Essex and Sussex were hooted. Bailiffs who came to force grudging farmers to pay up were stood off with sticks and guns. Some Kentish farmers even dug trenches, remindful of wartime, around the barns in which they kept stock which might be seized. A few boasted that they had strung up electrified barbed wire, shouted, "This is a tithe war!" Infinitely distressed and completely silent was Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. The legal experts of His Majesty's Government assert that...
...From his Kentish grave William Gilbert Grace, M. D., last week must have wanted to cry approbation for the thought which the learned British Association for the Advancement of Science (continuing its York meeting) gave to the subject of cricket bats. Dr. Grace's father, uncle, and four brothers (notably the late great Edward Mills Grace who also was a doctor of medicine) were able cricketers during Queen Victoria's reign. But William Gilbert ("W. G.") Grace was incomparably the world's greatest all-round player the game has ever produced. A huge...