Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week he marshaled his lady, his three children (Rose Maureen, 13, Shane William, 10, Brian James, 6) a nanny (nurse), an aide-de-camp, a valet, a maid, a secretary, a lady in waiting, three dogs, 28 trunks and suitcases onto the four-stacker Aquitania in Southampton (see cut), and in a grey drizzle set sail for Halifax...
...Southampton quayside was decked with flags of all nations and with 500 dockhands, shipwrights, soldiers, sailors and sundry Sotonians (city natives). As the tankless warrior walked down the gangplank, the good old English air shook with good old English free speech...
...Arena. Winston Churchill drove into a barrage of rumor that his Conservative Party leadership would soon be taken over by heir-apparent Anthony Eden. Day after his Southampton arrival he turned up in the House of Commons, evoked a round of cheers that interrupted a speech by Food Minister Sir Ben Smith. He smiled and waved apologetically to Smith, who waved back. Next day he held a parley with his "shadow cabinet" of top party colleagues...
...Arms, No Armor. In Southampton, England, Army officials required U.S.-bound war brides to swear that they had no guns or ammunition...
...cold winter's dawn this week the grey and battered troopship Argentina hove into New York harbor after a nightmare voyage across the Atlantic. The passengers were 451 British wives of American G.I.s, and their 175 children. Nine days before, they had left Southampton alternately singing There'll Always Be an England and God Bless America...