Word: shillinger
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There was once a most shy bank clerk whom his associates called "Bunnie." He was a most efficient bank clerk with heavy spectacles, long, grey trousers, large nose, watery eyes, and a limp. All day long he sat at a high stool in Thread needle Street whisking a great quill...
The Church of England was on the side of the National Government, indiscreetly so. Village parsons, safe in their obscurity, were not more rash in dragging the Church into politics than the Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Knowing and hoping that his words...
Working all summer with big depth bombs and small depth bombs, grim Italian divers have blown and bubbled their way slowly nearer to a bullion treasure of $5,000,000 sunk off the west coast of France in the strong room of the foundered British liner Egypt (TIME, Sept. 8...
They said they have blasted down to actual contact with the Egypt's strong room wall. To burst it may be possible before winter storms set in. The splendid shilling (an ordinary English coin dated 1918) is the first "treasure," the first bit of precious metal brought up from...
"We found this shilling," said a proud