Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herbert and his handful of Oppositionists could have kept the House voting all night. But at i a.m. they gave up the hopeless fight and did not return to the floor. Laborites, who had been yawning and sprawling on their benches, came to life. Mrs. Bessie Braddock, a Liverpool Laborite, did a victory dance across the green carpet, triumphantly plumped her plumpness on the Tory bench where Winston Churchill usually sits...
...nudging sixty, Felix was born of humble shepherd stock in Megalopolis, Greece. At eight he ran away to Athens to sell papers; by nineteen he had saved sufficient money to join the great immigration wave to America and to make sightseeing stopovers along the way at Marseilles, Paris, London, Liverpool, and Halifax. Reaching Boston with one lone dollar to his name, he first worked in a friend's establishment on Essex Street and after a brief stint on his own in the Hub made the move to Cambridge. He had never enjoyed an education of his own so basking...
...pride took a beating as the waves ruled. The liner Mauretania, refurbished for the transatlantic run, was caught in the storm during her trial run. Unable to berth because of the rolling waves in the Mersey River, the big (35,000 tons) Mauretania was stranded for four days off Liverpool, while her 400 guests fretted. Among the passengers was Sir Alexander Maxwell, head of the Government's Tourist Board, who missed 14 meetings at which he was to speak on the joys of travel on British ships. The undamaged Mauretania (she is due in New York this week...
...ocean navigation, and at the portal of 1,200 miles of inland waters. From December to April the port is ice-locked. Yet it handles a third of Canada's commerce, exports more grain than any other port on the North American continent. It is closer to Liverpool than any U.S. seaport, is the nearest ocean port of any size to central Canada and to the U.S. Midwest. "If it were not for the barrier of ice," wrote Stephen Leacock, "Montreal might easily be the greatest port in all the world." In 7½ ice-free months Montrealers...
...Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef's and Liverpool House. Just around the corner there is a sailor's club where last season an average of 300 sailors a night were quartered...