Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London barrister, an idealist, but no businessman, pink-faced Tom Hughes set the younger sons to laying out cricket fields, tennis courts, organizing a Rugby football team, dramatic societies, a cornet band. In the Tennessee mountains old English homes sprang up, a "Tabard Inn," a church, a library which included a practically complete set of Hughes first editions, a rare Dickens item, pamphlets by the younger Pitt, the entire series of Illustrator Kate Greenaway. Tom Hughes's mother moved there, lived out her life in "Uffington House." But Tom Hughes's wife thought the whole thing was silly...
...London stores officials gloomed, "trade is far below normal." The forehanded British toy trade offered numerous war toys, in sharp contrast to shortage in Germany, some remarkably expensive. Example: the Maginot Line, completely equipped, ten pounds...
Super-Secret. At Paris, in wartime, any French statesman who made such speeches as Darnley, Arnold and Chichester reeled off last week would find his career ended amid shouts of "Traitor!" In phlegmatic London, the sensation in the Lords effectively diverted public curiosity from what happened that same night in the House of Commons, which held its first secret session of World...
...frail, aged Englishman had his play, Young England, produced. The critics voted it the worst show that had opened in London in 20 years: nobody gave it three nights. It ran, to packed houses, for over a year...
...London's bright boys just had to see what the worst show in 20 years looked like. They screamed with laughter at its superpatriotic goings-on, involving gallant officers, dastardly villains, prostitutes, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, taints of illegitimacy, stolen papers, stolen cash, the Union Jack. They went back for more, and their friends went with them. .Soon it became quite as chic to go (preferably halfcocked) to Young England as to the opera. At first the audience merely ad-libbed, then (as they came to know the play virtually by heart) they started beating the actors to their...