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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When talking about the war understating Britons sometimes refer to the "little difficulty we are having with Germany," the "current spot of bother" or the "Adolf agitation." Even the fact that magnetic mines and flying mine layers were about last week did not change the tone since few citizens of that seafaring island could be really worried about matters which they felt could be solved by their sailors and scientists...
What worried Londoners more than anything else last week was the fact that the British Isles went back on winter time and on that day came a 4:30 p.m., instead of a 5:30 p.m., blackout. That produced plenty of grumbling about stale air inside shuttered offices and renewed demands that the blackout be modified. Blackout grumbling caused London's first sizable wartime strike. Four hundred fifty trolley busmen refused to work until their schedules during blackouts were eased. By & large, however, life in England after two months was adjusted to wartime conditions...
...Onetime Senior Lord of Appeal Lord Dunedin celebrated his goth birthday with cocktails in his Sloane Street home. Guests viewed the film His Lordship took in the Black Forest (Germany) last summer...
...sauce of spirit that explains why Paris can remain, even in wartime, the world's style centre -these qualities combine to make Eve Curie, the 35-year-old daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, a woman whose changes of dress or hairdo sometimes swing whole fashions. Last week Eve Curie wrote in Vogue about what happens to fashions in the face of tragedy...
...little hats of last July, those impertinent hats of peacetime, those portents of happiness, unstable, tiny, poised comically over the nose, had suddenly become absurd...