Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Lloyd George was still being criticized. Two things he still does magnificently: deliver orations and cultivate flowers. M. P.s now grumble because he always leaves the Commons immediately after his orations, never waiting to hear lesser orators express themselves. Amateur gardeners near his estate in Churt, Surrey, also grumble that his great fame, not his great flowers, takes so many flower show prizes away from others. But even these complaints are testimony to the fact that David Lloyd George has been one of the foremost men of his time, and that at 76 he is still a fine...
...control room of the Express shifts mostly between Stornaway House and Cherkley Court in Surrey, a 750-acre estate 20 miles out of London which Beaverbrook bought soon after he went to England. Both houses have phones in most of their 20-odd rooms, in their gardens...
...Secret Agent are often too intricately built and written to appeal to mass audiences. To connoisseurs of spy melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival engagements in Manhattan and London. Hitchcock lives in a walk-up flat in London, spends his weekends gardening at his cottage in Surrey. Now 38, he has been directing English pictures for 14 years, will work in Hollywood for the first time next February when he goes there to make Titanic and Rebecca for David Selznick...
...Helen Wills Moody: the women's singles of the Surrey tennis tournament, her second victory since arriving in England to try to win her eighth English championship at Wimbledon next month; defeating Margot Lumb, No. 10 in British ranking, in the final, 6-3, 6-4; at Surbiton, England. In both tournaments, Mrs. Moody lost only...
...beauty in both music and science. A lonely and meditative man himself, he regarded Beethoven as the greatest of all musicians, Newton as the greatest of all scientists. His life of Beethoven is one of his best-known books. A few days before he died last August in Surrey, England, of disseminated sclerosis, he completed his Isaac Newton. Last week this book was published...