Word: southwold
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They know everything about him: his bank balance, his sex life, his loneliness after Lady Marjorie's death, the snubs he receives from his aristocratic Southwold in-laws, his distress at Son James' behavior, the state of his career. And in a hundred ways they mutely demonstrate their sympathy for him. But Richard, unlike the TV audience, knows very little about them. Consequently, his sensitive efforts at sympathy often seem gauche, even patronizing...
Then stepped forward Robert Howgrave-Graham, 72, a retired engineer and physicist and Assistant Keeper of Muniments of Westminster Abbey. Restoring ancient figures is Howgrave-Graham's hobby. Since his apprenticeship in the '20s, when a clock jack (a clock-striking figure) in Southwold Church hit him on the head with its hammer, he has developed great skill. Yes, said Howgrave-Graham, he could refurbish the figures...
...duty to his readership. To millions of English "small-means men" and their families, it is the most appealing kind of publishing. Some of the latest copies of the Express to reach the U. S. were filled with their usual budget of post-crisis news: the Vicar of Southwold had seen a genuine sea monster offshore, a dog was tried for biting a dustman, a Wiltshire schoolmistress had found a mushroom over eleven inches wide. And across an entire page the Express splashed a row of grinning British faces, exhorted: "GET THE MONDAY MORNING SMILE...
...from Frisco to Bombay, Melbourne to Cape Town, the Salvation Army was on the job, inviting harassed and stricken souls to the peace which passeth understanding, doling alms. Some were saved and some scoffed; but neither gave three thoughts to a lonely old man in an isolated cottage in Southwold, Suffolk, who spent last week some harassed, stricken nights. He was General William Bramwell Booth, commander of the Salvation Army.* He was afraid of his sister, Commander Evangeline Booth of the Army in America...
...Tradesmen in the neighborhood of the Southwold cottage stated that General Booth assumes the name "Bernard" when retiring there for rest. When Salvation Army members visit him they take off their uniforms, appear in plain street clothes...