Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Britain had suffered most up to last week. Mrs. Kate Meyrick, 60, night club mistress, jailbird, mother-in-law of lords, died last week. Dead too were Aviatrix Winifred Spooner and more than 1,000 others in England & Wales within the week. Southampton, Birmingham, Glasgow, London suffered severely. London had 1,100 postal workers sick abed. Leeds curtailed its street car service and could not get its gas meters read. A London bride with a 30-ft. train to her gown lost, at the last hour, a bridesmaid. At Oxford a coroners' jury could not determine the cause...
When the world's largest ship, S. S. Majestic, nosed down Southampton Water last trip, she carried precious cargo. In the first cabin were Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada', Novelist Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Violin Prodigy Ruggiero Ricci, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, Headmaster of Eton College (see p. 38). In the hold were 311 boxes of gold -$15,000,000 worth-part of Britain's $95,550,000 War debt payment...
Essex's friend, Southampton, anxious to waken him to his peril and to win the support of the people, turned to a certain new dramatist all London was acclaiming. The crowds storming the Globe to see "Henry IV" had already applauded the wish that Essex might return from Ireland "bring rebellion broached on his sword:" only Shakespeare could waken their enthusiasm again, and show Essex his danger and his opportunity. And so the "History of King Richard II" was put on the boards on the Bankside, with a double moral for its time. The audience beheld the tyranny of Hereford...
...made up, Babies was aimed with care and force at all persons who "ooh" and "ah" over small children. The pictures were well chosen for cuddle and dandle appeal. There were unknown babies (but no pickaninnies), royal babies (Baroness de Bardossy of Hungary), socialite babies (Peter & Palmer Dixon of Southampton, L. I.), champion babies (Gillingham F. Landis, onetime winner of the Ocean City, N. J. baby parade). There was no mention of deceased baby-of-the- year Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. or unborn baby-of-next-year Smith Holman Reynolds. Promised for the next issue-was the "inside story...
Only after the Rotterdam had left Boulogne, where all passengers but one got off, and was steaming toward Southampton did the crew learn that they were not headed for home. They mutinied, in a thoroughly Dutch manner. There was no shouting, no shooting. The Black Gang (engine room crew) just let the fires out. On the bridge Captain Van Dulken jangled telegraph handles, shouted down speaking tubes, stumped about like a bipedal Stuyvesant. The crew stayed stubborn and the Rotterdam drifted uncomfortably close to the coast of France. Finally Captain Van Dulken capitulated, but he still had a retort...