Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lies in their more delicate shadings were considered last week by the Bishop of Southwell, addressing teachers at Nottingham, England. "I should be prepared," said he, "to exonerate a person who tells a lie to save an innocent life . . . just as I should uphold a starving man who stole food to keep himself alive." Commentators listed in the Bishop's support Victor Hugo, whose nun in Les Miserable-; told with the author's approval her first lie, for hounded Jean Valjean. Otherside supporters recalled famed Presbyterian evangelist Robert Elliott Speer's sermon The Margin of Safety...
...Williams replied that the owners demand "revision" (lengthening) of the miners' working day as a preliminary to any compromise whatsoever. . . . Ensued complete deadlock before the peace negotiations had even begun. The negotiants bowed formally to one another, dispersed. All hope of peace seemed gone. Then 17,000 Nottingham and Derby coal miners broke suddenly with the Miners' Federation, accepted an offer from the Bolsover Colliery Co. to resume work at their former wages, agreed to labor 7½ hours a day. Though capitulation by 17,000 miners out of a striking 1,000,000 meant nothing, an impetus...
...Author. Born to coal-mining in Nottingham, 40 years ago, David Herbert Lawrence scavenged crumbs of scholarship as he could. An unusual mother aided in this. He taught, wrote verse, published Sons and Lowers in 1913, his first important novel. He has wandered the earth as few men do-especially Australia, Mexico and the southwest U. S. In England, lately, he has been closely associated with John Middleton Murry, the late Katherine Mansfield's husband, in the publication of Murry's review, The Adelphi...
...Nottingham, England (onetime abode of Robber Robin Hood), three race-track bookies, with bags, brass nameplates, betting tablets, visited a golf course, took up a stand at the starter's tent, made an offer: "Five to one on the field." They were ousted...
Recently, the Board of Education at London settled the teachers' salary question by adopting Lord Barnham's proposal that women receive 83% of men's wages. Last week, the National Association of Schoolmasters met at Nottingham, condemned women teachers out of hand, said they were responsible for increase in juvenile crime, demanded that every boy over 7 be taught by men, declared that women were unable to understand or control boys...