Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire Regiment, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Lancashire Fusiliers, the King's Own Yorkshire Infantry, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Suffolk Regiments...
...spoke with Mrs. Juby, the Methodist minister's wife. They decided to organize the Voluntary Vigilantes. Last weekend, just at dark, a dozen earnest matrons equipped with brand-new hats and armbands patrolled in pairs. From time to time their torches (flashlights) stabbed the soft gloom of Suffolk's night. But they found nothing. Undaunted and unconvinced, they decided to make their rounds a little later next time. Explained Mrs. Juby: "Girls everywhere like to go after boys. What we've got to do is be at hand to help them when they find they...
...Lord Rosebery's Ocean Swell, a three-year-old, 28-to-1 shot; the 165th running of the English Derby, held in spite of the invasion and enemy "robot bombers," over the grassy, up-&-down Suffolk Stakes course at Newmarket. The crowd of 10,000 was less than one-fortieth the size of the last peacetime meeting...
Wilson was born into a distinguished Suffolk family. One ancestor, Lord Raglan, commanded British forces in the Crimean War; another, Lord Cardigan, led the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava; an uncle, General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, had a corps at Salonika in World...
...green, grey weekend in 1896, George Bernard Shaw (see above) went down to Stratford St. Andrew in Suffolk to visit his good Fabian friends, Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The other guest was an idealistic Irish girl named Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend: she came from County Cork; her father was a millionaire. After the holiday Shaw wrote his beloved correspondent, Actress Ellen Terry: "I am going to refresh my heart by falling in love with her. I love falling in love...