Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Improvident Family. Even if Cripps persuades the trades unions to accept a wage freeze, he must take Britons over still harder jumps. The bluntest warning of their probable nature came, not from any government leader, but from the London Economist. "Britain has been living like an improvident family," it wrote, "which, failing to make both ends meet, first spends the accumulated capital of the past, then borrows from friends . . . and when their loans are exhausted, begins to pawn the furniture. . . . When a family faces bankruptcy, either it goes under to a life of perpetual makeshift and pauperism, or it restores...
...They [the government] have destroyed the identity of the City of London and have purloined its name. ... It is now to be submerged by the constituencies of Shoreditch and Finsbury.* There are a lot of very good people in Shoreditch and Finsbury, but I really do not think they will wish to walk about under the false pretense of being the City of London...
Three staccato shots startled the sleepy residents of Wade's Hill Road in London's Southgate district. The listeners, and all London, were even more startled to learn that the gunfire had killed unarmed* Police Constable Nat Edgar-the first bobby to be shot in metropolitan London in 26 years...
...after, London's policemen put their unused guns away, calmly went back on duty, unarmed as usual...
...Marjorie Chamberlain of Purley, near London, had a nanny goat named Gertie and two kids named Snitch and Snatch. She also had a one-eyed, champion egg-laying duck named Belinda, and a Derby racing car. All these chattels needed housing...