Word: nottingham
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...Common Market, but it reaches beyond the six countries that presently constitute it. Britain, while not yet a member, shares in the new affluence and in the ever-widening ways of life. A typical incident occurred a few years ago, when a Hollywood movie company went on location near Nottingham to film Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's somber novel about life in the sooty, poverty-ridden English Midlands. Before the scene could be made to look properly depressing for the camera, the film makers had to go from house to house, asking townspeople to take down their...
Moonlight Flit. Brian Seaton is the elder brother of Saturday Night's hero, Arthur, growing up in industrial Nottingham in the '30s and on the dole...
...Angries who have cut their literary teeth in Britain's welfare state, perhaps the angriest is a onetime Nottingham slum kid named Alan Sillitoe...
...then all the conditioning of military training and Mother England falls before the conditioning of Nottingham and Dad and the dole. He lets the peasant...
...World War II learned the art of camouflage as an army deserter. His first headline break came after his conviction for the safe job (Scotland Yard has yet to trace $90,000 worth of stolen jewelry). After Alfie slipped through locked doors and over a 20-ft. wall at Nottingham Prison, he became known as "Houdini" Hinds, spent eight happy months on the loose in Europe and Ireland, where he had set up shop as a builder-decorator when the Yard caught up with...