Word: queue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Playing. Still far out in front in the circulation parade is Britain's (and the world's) biggest newspaper, News of the World (circ. 8,320,000). In one recent issue, News of the World readers were served up such titillating headlines as WOMAN SCREAMED IN BUS QUEUE, CLERK WITH SPLIT MIND IN 4 A.M. HOTEL SCENE; UNCLE AND PARENT TO SAME CHILDREN; MEN THRASHED PIG UNTIL IT DIED. But what really sells the News of the World is not its headlines but its detailed, deadpan reporting of court testimony in all manner of sex and criminal cases...
Instead of manners based on privilege, the British, he said, have devised a new set of manners based on rights. There is "dour deference for the first comer, the man at the head of the queue." A "ritual of the queue" has evolved, in which women take part with stock phrases like "This lady was before me, I think," and "Would you keep my place...
...queue, thinks the New Statesman's chronicler, "must answer some deep-seated need of our time...No one can push in ahead by sheer strength and skill and win the prize-a fortune or a dozen boxes of chocolates-which the majority won't get. But equally, no one will be quite left out-all will get their two ounces of jujubes* by mere waiting and shuffling along at intervals...
Chief Bonne was right about the free treatment.* The illustrious patient promptly had his eyes examined, but he would have to wait about five months for his specs. One million three hundred thousand plain Britons were in the queue ahead...
...thinks is a good place to live, is far from the notions of the ould sod and the emerald isle which many Americans cherish. He sees a nation of peasants-become-freeholders, a nation slowly learning how to make the best of its position "at the end of the queue" of Europe. For the present, however, he strikes a balance: " [We] have no nightingales, but also have no serpents; no moles, also no ballet; no Communist intelligentsia, but also no Catholic intelligentsia...