Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...L. M. BIRKHEAD...
Love in Wartime. In Havana, Ill., the Rev. James L. Dial took pity on a point-short couple he had just married, lent them three pounds of sugar for their wedding cake. In Rochester, N.Y., a ration board heard from an applicant, "I'm getting married, so I need a new pair of work shoes," considerately marked his request "Urgent...
Ahead of Harry Truman, and behind him, were other Americans and Britons who had come to sit with the Russians at Potsdam: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, General of the Army George C. Marshall, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson - finally, in the 14th plane, Winston Churchill himself...
Cause Célèbre. Mr. Quennell's liveliest figure is his least known one: John Wilkes. This squint-eyed, witty, opportunistic M.P. had immense charm, justly boasting that he could "talk away" his ugly face in half an hour. He led a dazzlingly licentious existence-swilling, wenching, dabbling in the "blasphemous and priapic" rites of the notorious Hell Fire Club. "Wilkes," said Lord Sandwich, "you will die of a pox or on the gallows." "That depends, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...
...beyond all this, Wilkes was the center of the fiercest cause célèbre of 18th Century England-one that conceivably might have toppled George III from his throne. It began in 1763, at the conclusion of the Seven Years' War. Wilkes, in the 45th number of the North Briton, anonymously denounced George Ill's speech lauding the Peace of Paris - a peace Wilkes likened to the Peace of God, "because it passeth all understanding." For this attack the Government had Wilkes arrested and his house rifled on a general warrant, which violated his civil rights...