Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over Universal Service. Universal was the personal mouthpiece of William Randolph Hearst. It went to his morning papers, carrying news written to reflect the Chief's most cherished ideas. It also carried his biggest personal scoops, like the positive statement last November that Edward VIII would marry Mrs. Simpson...
...Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had called upon His Majesty, King Carol announced with a keen sense of timing that he had just bought the $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin which was leased last year by King Edward VIII for his cruise with Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Said His Majesty: "She is a beautiful vessel, one of the most splendid afloat. I need relief sometimes from State duties, and can think of few more pleasant ways of recuperating one's energies, or refreshing one's brain...
...glass," so soft and pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little child's face." Peering through heavy bars at the British crown in the Tower of London, she wished that...
...Simpson's: A London eating-house...
...unpalatable to Britons was the Irish situation of last week that London papers joined in a conspiracy of silence much like that with which they concealed Mrs. Simpson as long as possible. "For all one reads in the British press about tomorrow's election," cabled London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall to the New York Times, "it might just as well be taking place in Bulgaria or Bolivia...