Word: mall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about to close; the Government had refused to renew its lease. No more would the pink pukka sahibs and their leathery memsahibs stare glassily over the glassy bay. Gone from most of the smart hotels were the signs "Europeans only." In cool Simla, Indians now jostled along the Mall where 20 years ago no person in Indian dress would have been allowed...
...ripple ran through the throngs lining the route from Waterloo Station. But it was only Queen Mary, sedate and ramrod-backed, in her maroon Daimler. The real cheers came half an hour later, when six prancing white police horses stepped along the broad, sanded Mall leading a shining, black state landau with scarlet-coated outriders. In the carriage, her pink ostrich feathers bobbing gaily, sat the Queen, King George beside her, in naval blues; and opposite their parents, riding backwards, the Princesses. As they drove past the cheering crowds, Margaret couldn't resist craning round once...
...fraction of the population rose from warm beds and sat shivering beside wirelesses to hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide. A blue-faced cabby with frosted eyebrows said to a chum: "We didn't ought to have sent them." In a swank Pall Mall club, an elderly gentle man turned from the ticker mumbling: "Damn bad luck." All England knew and feared the name of Australia's great batsman, a wiry stockbroker, Don Bradman. With his help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw. The Australians had already...
...Star," says McKelway, "is an old lady, and it would be unseemly for her to turn a somersault on the Mall. I don't think we're stodgy. Mr. Noyes used to say, 'Let them say we are stodgy and dull. At least, they know that our editorial columns cannot be bought...
...company s lawyers, suave, able Paul Hahn became so useful that George Hill put him on the payroll in 1931, made him his No. 1 assistant a year and a half later. He heads American's American Cigarette & Cigar Co. (Pall Mall). Hill Jr. has been with American only half as long. But he held the same title his father once had-vice president in charge of advertising. Schooled at St. Mark's and Yale, he served an apprentice, ship in the paper-box industry, was an Army colonel in World...