Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill in a hurry to make the airport. It seemed rather steep, and I found later that they had inadvertently thrown in all the previous day's laundry bills for other tenants of the small hotel. The matter has since been adjusted. By the time we got to London the children's shoes were worn through and, shoe rationing having gone off for the first time in seven years, we reshod them there...
Almost nobody makes bad jokes about her any more, with the exception of the incredible Westbrook Pegler (whose continued toleration is all the proof anyone should need that the U.S. press is free); last week he called her "the Great Gabbo." When she was in London last spring for the unveiling of her husband's monument, men respectfully took off their hats as she passed. The London News Chronicle wrote: "She has walked with kings, but never lost the common touch. Immersed in politics, she has never acquired the hard professionalism of the politician...
...reparations-of industrial plants in Western Germany. Eastbound, he rode on the presidential plane with Secretary of State Marshall. ("It was," said Hoffman, "the highest-level hitchhike in history.") Next day he conferred with sprightly Foreign Minister Schuman in Paris; the next, with tired, grumpy Foreign Minister Bevin in London; and a day and a half later, he was back in Washington, holding a press conference. He was natty in a dark blue suit but he needed a shave...
...some 200 years, Lloyd's of London had known every day of the Empire's growth-every new wharf, every skirmish, every treaty. One night last week, Lloyd's, like a rich aunt with the children home from school, threw open its doors for a party Disraeli would have loved: for 2,400 guests, 2,400 bottles of champagne, and, to soften the glitter of the great marble halls, ?1,400 worth of flowers. The London Evening Standard glowed: "Diamonds, champagne, beautiful women in lovely gowns, men wearing dazzling displays of honors and medals. There...
Guests of honor were the Prime Ministers (or their deputies) of seven Dominions* of the British Commonwealth come to London to consult-but not to decide. On many issues they would have found decision difficult. Those issues were deliberately put aside, or touched upon lightly...