Word: maidenhead
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...wish your correspondent could have been with me at Maidenhead on the Thames when he wrote TIME'S disgraceful story about "swan upping" (TiME, Aug. 5). I would have boxed his ears, as I should like to box yours...
...Just let any of our Boston women catch some man "swan upping" in our parks! ... Of course at Maidenhead I was helpless, except that my blood boiled. Shame on you, TIME, for not denouncing "swan upping"! MARY ELIZABETH ROBBIN...
...Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly once a month.* Last week he and the Pilgrims had one of the most notable...