Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nights before Parliament reconvened last week, Captain the Right Honourable David Margesson, M. P., Conservative Party Whip, found himself in a very tight spot. Weekending at the Sussex house of his friend. Transport Minister Euan Wallace, Captain Margesson retired about midnight to his bedroom in an otherwise unoccupied wing. In the bed room was a cupboard (containing a washstand) equipped with an automatic light switch. When the door was open, the light was on; when closed, the light was out -or at least it was supposed to be. Captain Margesson, impelled by what he later de scribed as "childish curiosity...
Last week it appeared that all guesses were wild. Lord Haw-Haw, according to the latest (and only official) identification, was born in the U. S. As the latest story goes, the Sunday Pictorial last December interviewed a woman in the tiny village of Waldron, Sussex. She was sure Lord Haw-Haw was her ex-husband, William Joyce. To make doubly sure, she tuned him in one night when her small daughters were in the room. The eldest child paled. "That's W. J., isn't it?" she asked...
...profit. Meanwhile, in 1892, another U. S. steel pioneer was at work on the Mesabi-Henry W. Oliver, who joined up with Andrew Carnegie's right-hand man, Henry C. Frick-over the opposition of "Pioneering don't pay" Carnegie, who predicted from a Sussex retreat that "this ore venture . . . will result in more trouble and less profit than 'almost any other branch of our business." In 1896 Frick and Oliver went to see Rockefeller, leased his vast mines for a royalty of 25? a ton (when other mines were drawing royalties of 65? a ton); guaranteed...
Minnie was finally located in Crowborough, Sussex by the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post. She proved to be a grey-haired spinster who recently taught in the Social Science Department of the London School of Economics. According to the Telegraph, Minnie some 25 years ago published privately in aid of an Indian charity a book of verses called The Desert, and the lines quoted by His Majesty are in her verse God Knows. After further inquiring, the BBC challenged the Telegraph's, God Knows theory, went on the air with an announcement that the lines occur...
Died. Mrs. Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling, 73, American-born widow of English Rudyard Kipling; in her home, Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex. Kipling was born Dec. 30, 1865, she Dec. 31, 1865; they were married Jan. 18, 1892; he died, with her at his bedside...