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When Parliament next reassembles, the dockers, garmentworkers and munition makers of Whitechapel, in London's squalid East End, will be represented in the House of Commons by Petty Officer Walter James Edwards, stoker in the Royal Navy's mine sweeper H.M.S. Speedwell...
...uncontested by-election last week Stoker Edwards, former dockers' union leader and ardent piano thumper, won his seat. Next day he returned to active duty .at sea. Cracked his constituents: "01' Walt'll build some fires under them White hall toffs...
Planning to wrest all the horror possible out of green light effects, an inter-mission-dimmed house, deceptive draperies, and revised dialogue, the Harvard Dramatic Club will present its own version of "Dracula," a stage adaptation of Dram Stoker's famous novel, on August 20, 21, 22 in Sanders Theatre...
...stoker passing cordite up to one of the Britisher's for'ard guns was puzzled by sudden silence above him. He went aloft to see what was the trouble. He found ". . . most of the men dead. . . . About 20 men were being attended to by the doctor. A shell came over and I guess it finished them." The third salvo had carried away another forward gun. Another powder monkey (in peacetime a London cabby) later recalled how after half an hour, "my gun was hit directly. . . . There was a terrible sound and the gun and its whole crew were...
...During the historic fight, an egg laid by a canary on the Exeter hatched as a shell burst nearby. The battle-bred nestling, named Spee, now three months old (adolescent) was last week raffled off in Plymouth, brought ?17.165 for dependents of the Exeter'?, 61 dead. The winner: Stoker Smith...