Word: surrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British public no longer laughs at this last line of defense. In the opinion of many an expert, the Home Guard has made Britain almost invulnerable to attack. On the northern moors countrymen patrol day & night. Golf courses in Kent and Surrey are littered with Home Guard barricades to prevent plane landings. At all strategic crossroads Home Guardsmen man pillboxes, road blocks or well-placed tank traps. Behind every hedgerow, at every cottage sill, at every parish well stands a little body of men who believe not only in England but in themselves...
...opening of a rest home in Surrey for bombed-out mothers and children, Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., wife of the U.S. minister to exiled governments, posed for photographers with twin girls in her arms. One of the babies obligingly gave a smart salute...
Died. Sir Emsley Carr, 74, editor of Britain's No.1 scandal sheet, News of the World, world's largest Sunday paper; in Surrey, England. In 50 years he boosted its circulation from 40,000 to 4,000,000. Sir Emsley's formula: thorough coverage of scandal, sex crimes, divorces, miscellaneous murder, and sport. His pet boast was that he had never fired a member of his staff...
...Despite bombings, sirens and frequent routings out of bed, the 450 inmates of the Lingfield Epileptic Colony at Lingfield, Surrey have remained "unperturbed." Many doctors think that epilepsy is brought on by fright, worry, or terrific shock. But Dr. Joseph Tylor Fox, head of the Lingfield colony, reported: "There was no general increase of [epileptic] attacks on days or nights of air activity, nor has any evidence been found of increased fits in individuals." This observation tends to confirm the theory that fits are caused by damage to the brain, not by psychological shock...
Died. Tiny, dapper, cocoa-skinned Prajadhipok of Sukhodaya, 47, former King of Siam and last of the nation's absolute rulers; of heart disease; at his country estate in Surrey, England. Educated at Eton and the officers' school at Woolwich, he ascended the Siamese throne in 1925. For nearly ten years he ruled eleven and a half million subjects who knew him as "Brother of the Moon," "HalfBrother of the Sun," "Possessor of the Four-and-Twenty Umbrellas." Six years ago he abdicated his throne on the refusal of the Cabinet to accept his demands for constitutional reform...