Word: porthmerryn
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...Remote Porthmerryn on the west coast was divided into Downalong (the fishing proletariat), Upalong (the swells) and the visiting Artists. People there seemed "rather fat and red," and Novelist Kennedy felt like a ghost. The Kennedys' maid from Downalong asked what Londoners thought about the war. " 'They're rather gloomy,' I told her. 'Gloomy? Why? They don't think that Hitler is going to win, do they? We don't think so Downalong, not for a single minute.' " Mrs. Aitken, "the doyenne of Upalong," said: "The news lately has been rather queer...
...commonplace that when Mrs. Kennedy took her daughter Ellen for an overnight visit to another resort, their host's children chanted: "We've got a magnetic mine. Have you got a magnetic mine? Bet you haven't got a magnetic mine at your old Porthmerryn." And when they were raided, Daughter Ellen "enjoyed it tremendously." promised "I shan't boast about it to Lucy and Claire. It's so hard on them to have missed...
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