Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cuttyhunk's case: the island was discovered in 1602 by Englishman Bartholomew" Gosnold. Shakespeare wrote The Tempest in 1611. Both Shakespeare and Gosnold had the same patron: the Earl of Southampton. Cuttyhunkers insist that Shakespeare's account of the shipwreck isle tallied with Gosnold's description of Cuttyhunk. Most Shakespeare authorities think he wrote about Bermuda...
...indeed high time that Mr. King came home. The steel strike, which he had hopefully handed over to Parliament to settle just before he left, had become a national disaster. Last week Mr. King sailed from Southampton...
...average citizen didn't seem to care much, one way or another, about all these manifestations, just so he went somewhere. By last week-after months of frantic scheming-millions were vacationing. Long-shuttered estates of the rich were being reopened at Southampton, Easthampton and Newport. New England resorts and beach hotels from Bar Harbor to Sea Island were awash with guests. Most desk clerks were not discussing reservations-except for the summer...
Ships can now enter Liverpool harbor in any weather, avoiding expensive delays at the Mersey's mouth. Britain's War Transport Ministry will soon set up radars at London and Southampton. Eventually it hopes to extend the system to all of Britain's fog-plagued harbors...
...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...