Word: keswick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alumnae are proud that World War II was partly won on the playing fields of Roedean, by Old Roedeaneans who became officers in the women's services, radio operators, ambulance drivers. Roedean itself was evacuated to Keswick, in the Lake District, while the Royal Navy took over its dormitories. The story goes that sailors billeted there almost wore out the buzzer system when they discovered neatly lettered signs: "If you want a mistress in the night, ring the bell...
...Keswick, England, 71-year-old Robert Just swore that he got rid of his rheumatism by bedding down every night for a week with a few dozen resentful bees...
Died. Sir Hugh Walpole, 57, indefatigable writer of British regional and family novels; of heart disease; at his home near Keswick, England, Heavy, broad-shouldered, energetic, he wrote heavy, broad-shouldered, energetic novels, in densely populated series (the Herries series, the cathedral town series), averaged more than a book a year from the appearance of his first novel in 1909 to the end of his life. "I write as I breathe," he remarked once...
...body of Shanghai was international, its backbone was British. The city's really big names-Sassoon, Macnaghten, Keswick-were British; so were its attitude toward natives, its philosophy of polite but huge profits, and, in the last three years, the main part of its resistance to Japanese imperialism...