Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke of Windsor was in London for a short visit, but the wedding to which he and the Duchess had not been invited was no longer a live issue; they now planned to find their...
...young London barrister had no intention of switching careers when he went back to Oxford, that day in 1912, to visit his old tutor. But the fellows of Brasenose College asked him to lunch. "It was a marvelous lunch," W.T.S. Stallybrass remembers, "with Château Yquem and green Chartreuse." When it was over, the fellows asked him to stay and join them. He said yes-if he could always dine that well...
...Vice Chancellor, Sonners will be busy dashing off to London on errands, attending university committee meetings, and running his own college as well. He also wants to carry on work in his own field and to continue to play host to fellows and students. "It's quite impossible to do all these," says Sonners placidly; but he will enjoy trying...
Tall and red-faced, George Belcher was one of the sights of London. For daytime wear, Artist Belcher chose the tweediest of hunting tweeds or else a funereal black cape and high satin stock. At night he preferred Victorian dinner jackets, lace cuffs, and ruffles. Thus attired, he spent half a century stalking likely subjects through London's foggy streets and second-best bar parlors. All his models, he liked to boast, were amateurs, "taken from life...
...During London's 1941 blackout, when going out or staying home was more perilous than it had ever been before, Thomas Burke set out to write a history of what Londoners have done to kill time after dark for the past 600 years. Burke, who died in 1945, had been encouraged by the fact that even in London of the blitz "the Won't-Go-Home-Till-Morning spirit was never extinguished...