Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michael, it was a cluttered courtship. When he left London he had decided not to return to his Communist-dominated country. In Lausanne, and in love, his throne assumed a new look. Reports said that he had requested his Communist-run government's permission to marry; his request had been approved in principle, but turned down as untimely. Michael's future as history's only Communist-dominated king still had to be decided...
...London of Kansas, in Manhattan for a visit, dropped in at the opera, and was forbidden to enter the Metropolitan Opera Club for a snack at intermission: he was not wearing tails. Though his host was the club's president, Landon reported later, "nothing . . . would change the mind of the man at the door." Observed the onetime candidate for President of the U.S.: "It's not the first time I was barred from a place...
...London, the literary Sitwells' Sir Osbert Sitwell won the Sunday Times's literary prize of ?1,000. "This occasion is particularly gratifying to me," said the happy winner, "because from my earliest days my two chief characteristics have been vanity and avarice...
...Dean's" nickname is no great exaggeration. An occasional enthusiastic visitor to the U.S.S.R., roguish Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 73, who looks like an 18th Century character in need of a haircut, has long been one of Communism's warmest apologists. He is a member of the London Daily Worker's editorial board. His political ululations have been an increasing embarrassment to the Church...
Whatever he said after that was usually bad news for the prisoner in the dock. His words carried weight: he held degrees from Oxford and St. Mary's Hospital, London, was the author of The Medical Investigation of Crimes of Violence, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, lecturer on such subjects as morbid anatomy and forensic medicine at London's University College Hospital and St. Bartholomew...