Word: paddington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped off a train at Paddington station...
...housewives plodded to the polls, elected Laborite Robert Joseph Mellish by a 4,444 majority. Twitted by jubilant Laborite Herbert Morrison, Tories replied: "Wait until tomorrow." With the U.S. Republican slogan "Had enough?" Tory leaders Lord Woolton and Anthony Eden had energetically stumped the former Tory stronghold of North Paddington, which had only gone Labor in the last general election. But middle-class North Paddington elected Laborite William James Field by a 3,000 majority...
Baedeker calls Paddington "uninteresting," but a lot of people sniping at the Church of England have recently made London's northwest district the most embarrassingly lively parish in Britain. For much of the borough is a red-light district, much of its land is Church-owned...
...Church, says the pamphlet, does "not receive rents from houses in Paddington" although it owns the land which "was many years ago let on leases to tenants who have in many cases sublet." Unfortunately, the Church has "no control whatever over the landlords, though [it has] made repeated efforts to obtain legal powers [but] Parliament is not willing to revolutionize the whole law of property to meet one particular hardship...
Safe in London after flights to Italy, to North Africa, to Britain, New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman (see p. 41) left Paddington Station in a limousine which promptly struck a parked car, crumpled a fender, smashed a wheel, blew a tire. The Archbishop was shaken but uninjured, planned to fly back to Africa next week...