Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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November. In London, Wally Farey, fined $4 for keeping a horse in his boardinghouse room, sadly explained: "I was lonely...
There'll be a hush over London as the last few minutes of the Old Year tick away. Then, from the four orange faces of Big Ben will come the first chimes of midnight, slow and reverberating, creeping from radio sets into every waiting home in the land. A new energy stirs. In the shadowy silence of St. Paul's Cathedral the Watch Night congregation will bend more fervently. At Piccadilly, amid the hooters and factory sirens that will mingle with all the city's bells, young men and girls will surge around Eros, wildly yelling, singing...
...July. In London, Lord Mancroft entered a Conservative Party meeting, expressed regret that he could not speak as scheduled because "My house is on fire." In Nashville, Julius Frankie Robinson explained to police why he had stolen his son from his ex-wife's sister: "To give him a bath...
...author of this paragraph, TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour, will herself keep an old custom of her native Lancashire by sallying forth with a hunk of bread, a nugget of coal and a handful of salt jammed into a pocket of her thickest coat to parade London's streets "till 1949 is well and truly born." Then, she will "first-foot" it back home, bearing the bread, coal and salt that are symbolic of warmth and prosperity for the coming year. Being a brunette, she will then go on to first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune...
...London thought the Dutch were, not "playing cricket." The U.S. State Department was "irritated" and U.S. economic aid to The Netherlands East Indies was cut off. The U.N. Security Council adopted a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire order intended to dislodge the Dutch. Not even the Dutch themselves celebrated their victory. Queen Juliana deplored the violence. Said she: "It is a tragedy of human society that makes force the necessary reaction to force . . . We are all in God's hands...