Word: mosley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chatty, alumni-bulletin fashion, the Establishment Chronicle noted: "We have lost touch with the following old boys: A. Eden, G. Burgess, D. Maclean, O. Mosley," and offered condolences to Number 96453. "Betjeman, J. Our great friend, this poet has aspired to write esoteric verse. Unfortunately his work has now received general acclaim . . ." Current members in good standing include Lord Mountbatten, Evelyn Waugh. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, T. S. Eliot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, but not Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell (though he is an Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor...
Every night last week-except twice when it rained-the mobs surged through London's seedy Netting Hill and Paddington districts. In Latimer Road, Soapboxer Jeffrey Hamm roared that Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's Union Movement had warned five years ago that racial flare-ups would result from the government's "open-door" policy to Negroes from the colonies and Commonwealth. "Deport colored people found guilty of crime!" he shouted. From the crowd of 2,000 teenagers came a hissing, ecstatic "Yesss!" A carload of Negroes went slowly by, and 200 screaming Teddy boys peeled off from...
Just as the bartender moved in to break it up, Tynan leveled a long finger at Wilson. "There's your supposed leader, your younger generation," he cried. "He's a dictator. He reminds me of the Oswald Mosley meetings before the war." "Terrific!" roared John Osborne. "A row like this is just what I've been looking for." Explained Logue later: "I objected to the philosophical statement, implied in every line, that we must suffer, that attempts to check, alter, reform, change our sufferings are impudence...
...seedy son of a lace-curtain London-Irish family, is hanging around present-day Barcelona waiting to commit just one last political murder before he tells all to a priest. Like Britain's London-Irish William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), Brennan had fallen out of the church into Mosley's Blackshirts. Via the Nazi SS, he becomes, by double desertion, a journeyman executioner for Russia's secret police. Yet he is not a devoted Bolshevik, simply a self-dramatizing wreck of a man without faith, family or country. His only love on earth is a prostitute called...
...Rocket Room), mellowing (43) Songstress Frances Longford hove up to a Manhattan pier on the 118-ft. Chanticleer, an air-conditioned pleasure dome captained by her husband, Outboard Motor King Ralph Evinrude. On hand to greet the yachtsmen was Rockin's most conspicuous author, smilin' Cartoonist Zock Mosley, who normally writes the overage dialogue of comic-strip hero Smilin' Jack. Why had he ventured into the teenagers rock 'n' roll rhythm? Drawled well-preserved Mosley: "I'm hepper than most bobby-soxers...