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Weaker Sex. In Nottingham, England, Thomas Albert Morley came home one night, manfully announced: "I'm boss from now on." Thereupon his wife 1) pushed him over a chair, 2) kicked him, 3) cut his arm with a knife, 4) cut him under the eye with a well-aimed teapot, 5) threatened to kill...
...Among them: Philosopher Bertrand Russell; London Publisher Lord Lay ton; the Very Reverend W. .R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's; the Right Reverend Edward Ellis, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham...
...small pockets" of gas that Federal Mine Bureau inspectors had found in the cavernous Nottingham colliery were only minor enemies to Danny Lewis and the 15,500 mine people of Plymouth, Pa. There were gas pockets in almost every anthracite mine in Pennsylvania. Besides, Danny had known greater enemies. Last September, when his confectionery business waned, he had closed out and begun digging coal to support his wife and two children...
With his 22-man night shift last week, Danny went 835 feet down into the Nottingham's top Ross vein-a black and echoing tunnel under the Susquehanna River. The federal inspectors had removed the explosive methane gas pockets when they last visited the top Ross vein in September. This night, soon after Danny began digging, the gas pockets came back...
That left 15. In the shivering crowd around the mine's entrance, 13 new widows and their 31 children began the lament Plymouth had heard after two other Nottingham explosions-in 1890 (eight dead) and in 1910 (seven dead). While gas-masked rescuers battled for their bodies, the names of the dead-Craynik, Parker, Zonobrowski, Bockus, Wilde, Ostrowski, Lewis-ran through the dark like a sigh...