Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holiday Mood. In London, when the Daily Herald sent a couple of reporters and three homing pigeons to cover a cross-Channel swim, the reporters came home, but the pigeons headed, respectively, for Paris, Marseille and the Riviera...
REGINALD E. DUNSTAN London, England...
...Your London correspondent has wronged Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and local pride. You give him either a cockney or a North Midlands accent when you make him say: "Just fancy 'avin' John L. Lewis comin' over here and tellin' us 'ow to do our bloody jobs. I'd say to 'im, 'When you take our two-foot-nine seams and give us your eight-foot seams, we might listen to yer' " [TIME...
...guarded rooms in Washington and in the capitals of Europe the telecom machines clattered: "This is Washington ...." "This is London . . ." "Embassy Moscow replying . . ." In the telecom room at the State Department, Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett sat day after day until the early morning hours, instructing, consulting, talking across an ocean and half a continent...
Self-Sufficient. In London, Ark., police were looking for the burglars who broke into the local garage to get tools to break into the village post office...