Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the couple drove (Duchess at the wheel) to Major Metcalfe's grey stone house in Ashdown Forest, about 40 miles south of London. In the car were two paperbound books: Winston Churchill's Step by Step, Dr. Ivan Lajos' Nazis Can't Win. Beaming like newlyweds, they received newspapermen. The Duchess was bright ("looked even better than when she left") in a gold dress, a gold and black checked coat, the Duke proper ("looked several years younger") in gray double-breasted flannels and a maroon-and-white...
Headquarters of the British Ministry of Information is a tall, white stone building in Bloomsbury (taken over from the University of London), a mile away from Fleet Street. Here are issued all official press bulletins. A teletype printer flashes them to newsrooms and agencies in Fleet Street. But most reporters, British and foreign alike, get their news direct from the mimeograph, write their copy in the great hundred-foot-square entrance hall of the Ministry, gas masks slung over their shoulders as they work, surrounded by thick mugs of bitter India...
...northern shore of Palestine's Sea of Galilee lies Tabgha, one of the Holy Land's lushest garden spots. Anciently, scholars believe, it was Bethsaida. It boasts a mosaic pavement and an altar stone, fragments of the Roman church of the Loaves & Fishes which was built to commemorate Christ's miracle on the other side of the lake. To Tabgha in the past 30 years have gone tourists, British officials, archeologists, Bible students, to visit not the Roman relics but the big, blue-eyed, square-bearded monk who discovered them, Father John Tapper...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau rushed last week from Bergen, Norway, in the Coast Guard cutter George W. Campbell to St. John's, Newfoundland, whence Coast Guard planes relayed him to Washington. Postmaster General Farley, after visiting Poland and France and kissing the "Blarney Stone" in Eire, was homebound aboard the S. S. Manhattan. *Attorney General Murphy announced there was "no spy angle" to the Bremen search. He also said last week: "There will be no repetition of the situation in 1917 when a democracy was unprepared to meet the espionage problem...
...after a 15-month voyage from London, he found India a "battered caravanserai." Its warring kinglets misruled some 90 distinct peoples whose languages were Babel. Its climate was hotter than its curry. Its diseases were "consumptions, fluxes, fevers, cholera, scurvy, berbers (a kind of paralysis), smallpox, gout, the stone, prickly heat, tetters or worms...