Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Elizabeth. Half an hour later, the all clear signal given, George and Elizabeth emerged. For him, as Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal and Marshal of the Air Force, the war had begun. For her, as for some 15,000,000 other British women, the pre-war life of home and children and firesides and friends had stopped...
...King's command, she assumed the title of Commandant in Chief of the three women's auxiliaries to the fighting services-Women's Royal Naval Service, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service. A large part of her new life was thus to be devoted to leading Britain's women-at-war, and the uniforms of these organizations were added to her wardrobe,* the first warlike garments to be worn by an English Queen since the days of Boadicea...
...well be that these are not the deeds of which Britain will be proudest in World War II. It may be that the greatest victories will have been won at home, in the vast cooperative efforts of British citizens to save each other needless suffering and loss of life, in the carefully planned nationwide emergency hospital service, the transfusion service, the ambulance services (even one on the Thames), in the evacuation of more than 1,000,000 of the defenseless from the danger areas of London, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester to places of greater safety. For in a nation which...
WATS have been recruiting and training since last year to serve with the Army as cooks, clerks, signalers. There are now 20,000, aged 18 to 43, many of them veterans or daughters of veterans. With Dame Helen again at their head, the WATS live the life of college girls in neat barracks, play hockey (absorbedly watched by soldiers off duty), give dances, go in strongly for makeup and midnight suppers...
Here I am a Stranger (20th Century-Fox). Blubber-lipped David Paulding (Richard Greene) is a clean, upstanding, well-dressed boy with a veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George...