Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, England...
...Guidance" Only. So, with churchly pomp & ceremony, began the eighth Lambeth Conference. After the opening service at Canterbury last week, the conference moved to London. There, for the next five weeks, the bishops of the Anglican Communion will meet in the historic library of Lambeth Palace. The prelates should have much to say to each other; thanks to World War II, it has been 18 years, instead of the usual ten,* since they last met. But it will be some time before the 20,000,000 communicants and the public at large know what they have said. All sessions...
...Americans brought wives & children along (their billeting, in universities and private homes, has been the special concern of Mrs. William Temple, widow of the late Archbishop of Canterbury). While the bishops deliberate in Lambeth Palace, their wives will have a conclave at High Leigh, a large country house near London...
Somewhat against its better judgment, Chapman & Hall, the London publishing house of which Evelyn's father was head, had brought out his first slim, satiric novel, Decline and Fall. It was a lighthearted little tale of moral turpitude about a young Oxonian named Paul Pennyfeather, who became a teacher without qualifications in one of fiction's most fascinating schools for backward children. He was on the point of marrying Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, the mother of one of his pupils, when he was thrown into jail. It had come to the notice of the vigilant police that Mrs. Beste...
Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903, allegedly near London. ("It's a great secret where I was born," Waugh said, when asked by TIME's London bureau, and hung up.) His father, a journalist turned successful book publisher, was a man of solidly middle-class taste, who reared Evelyn and his elder brother Alec (The Loom of Youth, Going Their Own Ways) in the solidly middle-class London suburb of Finchley...