Word: soho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, on a grey day that set the mood for gloom, there was brazen disregard of the blackout in many stores and homes. The great grey pile of Buckingham Palace showed a few lights. In about half of the grimy little shops on Soho's back streets the lights were full on for everybody to see. But along majestic Regent Street soft, flickering candlelight illumined windows. Silversmiths and jewelers put their best Georgian candlesticks to use, but most of them took small items off the counters in fear of shoplifters in the semidarkness. Most of London's West...
...friends Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Yeats, Symons and sometimes his French idol, Poet Paul Verlaine. At the first pub he would order absinthe, then quickly jot down the verses that had swum in his head during the day. That done, he would hurry on to a small, cheap Soho restaurant called the Poland, where he conducted one of the strangest, most fruitless courtships in literary history...
Joseph Merlin inspected the little metal wheels on his shoes, tuned his violin and shoved off on his rolling, novelty entrance to Mrs. Corneily's masquerade in Soho Square, London. He raised his bow and rolled forward. He found that he could not steer. Neither could he stop. He screamed. Two seconds later, Mrs. Corneily's ?500 mirror was in splinters, the fiddle was matchwood, and Merlin was bleeding like a pig. Thus, in 1760, the sport of roller skating was born...
...Glasgow police court, convicting a brothel keeper, describes her house as "a miniature League of Nations." In a Soho pub catering to all colors and nationalities, the barrel-bosomed proprietress deals thunderously with her conglomerate customers: "All right, you lovely people, it's eleven o'clock; get the hell out of here...
...four pages are usually crowded with war news from crack correspondents like Alan Moorehead in Algiers, C. V. R. Thompson in New York. But the Express is at its best on stories about murders, sex, abandoned babies and the more maudlin doings of Soho underworldlings. The U.S. staff (three reporters in New York, a man each in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles) files about 3,000 words daily, is never surprised to get a cable like: "RUSH...