Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Awkward, Embarrassing." The "London Plot," as the Evening Standard called it, was denounced by many as shady chicanery. Said a London scrubwoman: "I'd never 'ave thought it of 'em." Said Liberal County Councilor Harris: "A scandal. . . deliberately defeating the will of London...
...first time in almost ten years of war and austerity, the lights of London, including Piccadilly's advertising signs (see cut), were turned up to their prewar glory. Thousands of Londoners cheered, and moppets who had never seen the show murmured with delight. This was a happy prelude to an otherwise depressing week for Britain. In the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps presented his 1949-50 budget. Under his severe guidance, Britain had sweated, toiled, and made a sensational recovery (TIME, March 28). Now, the nation felt, it was due for something more than...
...raced across rubble-strewn back lots. Suddenly, he was face to face with Antoinette Duvernois, who had known him since he was a boy. She shrank back. He panted: "Don't be alarmed! I never fire on unarmed civilians." He ran on, past a staring millworker. "The Russians are after me!" he shouted. Across the railroad yards, he staggered into two bicycle policemen, sank to his knees. Tears streamed down his face. "Mercy!" he sobbed. "The Russians-they are everywhere...
...Browning, who bloomed in the 1926 tabloids when, as a 15-year-old schoolgirl, she married 51-year-old Edward ("Daddy") Browning, decided to swear off. In California, she got her divorce from husband No. 4, had a ready answer for reporters who asked about a future marriage: "No-never, never again...
...Guns. Founder Francis S. Street and Francis S. Smith never dreamed things would turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...