Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament passed an Emergency Powers Defense Act giving the Government full control over everybody and everything. As Minister of Labor, horny-handed Ernest Bevin could -if he chose-walk into London's stuffy Athenaeum Club, tap the Archbishop of Canterbury on his bald pate and order him to Sussex to dig trenches. Having, as the London Times put it, placed "our ancient liberties ... in pawn for victory," Britons wondered what their Government intended to do about it. Last week they found...
...Said Sussex villagers of five Nazis killed in a crash near Steyning: "We don't want them in our churchyard. These Germans are antichrist. They acknowledge no God but Hitler. Why should Christian burial be given pagans?" Required by law to bury all who die in his parish, Vicar E. W. Cox compromised, had graves dug in a distant corner of the churchyard, near the vicarage...
Died. John Oxenham (real name: William Arthur Dunkerley), about 80, fecund British novelist and poet; near Worthing, Sussex. He wrote 67 books. His daughter, who calls herself Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, has already published 63. His World War I verse had a great vogue and his Hymn, For the Men at the Front sold 8,000,000 copies...
...leaders as a bunch of pumpkin heads. His sneers hit close enough home to rate his being listed as Britain's most annoying invisible mosquito. Who was he? It was a problem that baffled the easily bored British. At last the infallible ear of a deserted wife in Sussex recognized Lord Haw-Haw's voice as her runaway husband's. His name: William Joyce, a onetime bully boy of Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's (TIME. March...
...Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision for my old age and for the welfare of my children. ... I am aware, dear lady, that you are the possessor of a considerable income. . . ." The Duke of Sussex, son of George III, to Lady Augusta Murray (1820): ". . . By all that is holy, till I am married I will eat nothing...