Word: londoners
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Ocean of Neck. The London Handel moved to in 1712 was a bawdy place of brawling and bawling. Handel did well at court. Queen Anne, who had little use for musicians, pensioned him just to spite her Hanoverian cousins. Anne's successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his operas with his favorite German mistress and her "two acres of cheeks ... an ocean of neck." The rest of London was more fickle. Addison, who had written an unsuccessful opera himself, denounced and ridiculed Handel's music. Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting...
Died. Princess Helena Victoria, 77, spinster granddaughter of Queen Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...
...fortnight before, Movie Czar Eric Johnston had gone to London prepared to talk turkey. He found the atmosphere ripe for a judicious compromise. Britain needed U.S. movies even worse than Hollywood needed the British market...
British Critics V. S. Pritchett and C. Day Lewis made no mistake when they gave Miss Barker the Maugham Award. Nor did the London Daily Mail's Peter Quennell, when he praised her for writing of people "she seems to know and feel for -from the soles of their erring feet to the crowns of their shining heads...
North Croydon is a cluster of geometrically dreary, determinedly middle-class suburbs on the southwestern fringes of London. Its mile after mile of dull, red brick houses are inhabited by shopkeepers, civil servants, office workers. Since the constituency was formed in 1918, North Croydon has been doggedly Conservative...