Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Example. In London, the British Anti-Woman Society (which deplores woman's effect on industry and men's morals) was shaken to its foundations when its 32-year-old firebrand president, Fred Wormull, was discovered meekly doing the dishes; he admitted that he had been married for the last two months...
...easily did he breeze through the first five matches that London's Daily Telegraph headlined, "Kramer Loses a Set," when he dropped one to Australia's Dinny Pails in the semifinals. It was the only one of 22 sets he lost all week. Said the Daily Mail's veteran tennis critic Stanley Doust: "I rate Kramer equal to Donald Budge, and better than Ellsworth Vines or Fred Perry...
...Wimbledon (see above) were just one more indication that England's guests this summer were making themselves right at home. To a country which prides itself on taking its games more seriously than its battles, the situation was beginning to look a bit too one-sided. The London Evening Standard's Columnist Hylton Cleaver seriously suggested last week that all foreigners, including horses, be barred from British sport for two years so that the home product might recover its lost confidence. The Observer's Editor Ivor Brown was more philosophical about it: "We can play second fiddle...
...Liverpool, England's best hope of winning the British Open golf championship died when haughty Henry Cotton took a second-round 78 and stormed off the green in a huff. One London paper consoled its readers: "For a welcome change, the Americans are not in the van." In fact, most topflight U.S. pros, including Defending Champion Sam Snead, did not even show up.* The winner: jaunty little Ulsterite Fred Daly of Belfast, who grinned and said: "It's lucky to be Irish...
Married. Virginia Mayo, 26, wide-eyed blonde cinemactress (The Best Years of Our Lives); and Michael O'Shea, 41, brawny sideshow barker turned cinemactor (Jack London); she for the first time, he for the second; in Glendale, Calif...