Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London's favorite and most revealing story-of-the-week was about a militiaman who was asked: "Are you going to fight for King and Country...
...Usually somnolent in August, London surged and churned with conflicting streams of humanity: urbanites leaving for the country, vacationers coming back, foreigners seeking refuge or trying to leave for home (see p. 40). All Germans were ordered out by their Embassy. But life went on unchanged for lots of people. Dancer Tilly Losch proceeded with her design to marry young Lord Carnarvon. Promoters went ahead with a walkingstick show, were miffed when Prime Minister Chamberlain refused to let his umbrella be exhibited. But 19 walking sticks owned by Lady du Maurier were there, one containing a telescope, another a gold...
...Safest spot near London was judged to be Harrow, because the steeple on its hill is German aviators' prime landmark approaching London from the Channel and they would not likely bomb it down...
...crisis, Englishmen crave an apt quotation from Shakespeare. The London News-Chronicle performed great public service last week by discovering in Hamlet (Act IV Scene 4): "Goes it against the main of Poland, Sir? . . . Yes, it is already garrisoned...
...benches. He was the Right Honorable Winston Churchill, most versatile member of the Conservative Party, once First Lord of the Admiralty, once Chancellor of the Exchequer, once Minister for the Colonies, once President of the Board of Trade and now just plain M.P. for Epping, 17 miles northeast of London on the Chipping Ongar Branch of the London North East Railway...