Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth of 13 in the BBC-CBS series Transatlantic Call (Sun., 12 noon, E.W.T.). "Plenty of doughboys come down to look at Lambeth Walk," said one Lambethman, "and there's nothing to see now." From the radio account it appeared that the Walk had been a bent little lane of shops with a pub called The Angel, an Eel Pie Saloon, and, in peacetime, a street market where anything could be had from "a pin to an elephant...
...secondary schools is the Bishopshalt School in Uxbridge, a town on the fringe of greater London. Founded in 1907, the school normally enrolls some 470 boys and girls, aged 11 to 19, drawn from a four-mile radius. The school is set in a park off a quiet country lane-a century-old, red brick manse flanked by a modern wing containing five science laboratories, a domestic science kitchen, a large gymnasium with locker rooms and showers. Near by is a twelve-acre playing field...
...enough money to rent out theatrical costumes and furnishings. Something of a wit in his coarse way, he began editing plays for production, soon became a play agent, buying and renting the works of others. On the side he kept a brothel: "In his tavern in Deadman's Lane, sub-leased to Widow Lee, Will Shakspere . . . created . . . a roistering hubbub." His "broken, almost falsetto voice" became a feature of London life. His "fat body" was soon "taxed by excesses." Many suffered from "his scheming tricks ... his dirty dealing and underhand passing of coin, all the shabby pretense...
Undefeated in four starts, two of which have been League competition, the swimmers will next face Columbia, in a meet scheduled for February 13 at the Lions' pool. Coach Ulen is searching for another backstroker, now that Captain Bill Drucker is to be graduated. Don Hartwell holds down one lane, and Dave Smith may be granted the other berth...
Died. William Carpender ("Crazy Willie") Stevens, 70, codefendant with Brother Henry, Sister Frances, in the famed Hall-Mills murder trial of 1926; eleven days after Sister Frances' death; in New Brunswick, N.J. The three defendants were acquitted of the Lovers' Lane murder of the sister's husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, and his paramour, Mrs. Eleanor Mills. "Willie," a large, pudgy, fuzzy-haired, simple-minded bachelor who liked to wear a fireman's helmet and hang around the firehouse, was counted on by the prosecution to spoil the defense's case when he testified...