Word: northumberlander
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Sacked City. Outside Parliament the demonstrators were joined by "ruffians and street boys, pickpockets and prostitutes." As the carriages carrying peers and M.P.s began to arrive, this mixed mob went berserk. The great Edmund Burke received no worse than shrieks of "obscene invective," but the Duke of Northumberland was beaten up, the Lord Chief Justice stripped of his wig. The Bishops of Lincoln and Lichfield were "plastered with mud and excrement"; the Archbishop of York was shoved about until he agreed to cry out "No Popery...
...many as 1,267 questions, but the questions must be carefully worded. Should a researcher ask, "Where do you keep your cow?", the farmer might reply with the modern cowshed. But if he is asked, "What do you call the place where you keep Moo?" he might say byre (Northumberland), cowhowel or cowhoyle (Yorkshire'). shippom (Lancashire), mistal (west Yorkshire) or shobbin (Devon...
...early in May when Ellen Moore, 22, a pretty young housewife, headed for the Child Welfare Clinic in the bleak Northumberland mining town of Wallsend. Two months pregnant, she had her 16-month-old firstborn, Paul, in his pram. As a truck carrying a load of tree trunks took a nearby corner, one of the lashings parted. A soft, log struck Mrs. Moore a glancing blow on the head, and she fell unconscious...
Soon afterward Fred became a glazier in the Northumberland town of South Shields. With only an ancient cat named Dimpy for company, he settled down to a life of solitude punctuated only by occasional memories of the wife he had loved and the son he had lost. Then, one day this month. Fred was called in by a neighbor to fix a broken windowpane. Over the inevitable cup of tea, the lonely man, now 77, told his story. "Why, that's funny." said another neighbor who had dropped in. "I heard almost the same story from a bus conductor...
Benita, 27, wife of Captain Matthew Lassetter of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, had traveled all the way to Tokyo to see her husband, only to have him whisked away to Korea after a brief five-day leave. One day, in the company of friends in the Marunouchi Hotel, she wished aloud that she might follow him. A sympathetic young R.A.F. pilot sidled up to her. "Lady," he murmured, "I'll get you to Korea...