Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must to all men, Death came last week to the softspoken, knife-witted, twinkle-eyed author of this definition, himself a master-economist. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, died of heart disease on Easter Day at his manor of Tilton, Sussex. He had just returned from setting up the World Bank and Fund which he had helped to draft in 1944 at Bretton Woods...
Died. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, Great Britain's most brilliant socio-political economist and monetary expert, a principal architect of the Bretton Woods Plan; of a heart attack; in Firle, Sussex (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Died. Henrietta Richardson Robertson (pen name: Henry Handel Richardson), seventyish, Australian novelist (Ultima Thule) who lived in England but turned for subject matter to her native country; in Hastings, Sussex. A striver for Flaubertian impersonality, she achieved it so well that few readers guessed the author...
Last week Sir Claude, living in a bachelor flat near Buckingham Palace, went down to Lewes, Sussex, for a divorce. He named Sir Richard as corespondent, charging adultery with Lady Auchinleck. The judge's decree broke up the Auchinleck marriage after 24 years. Apparently vivacious, bright-eyed Lady Jessie, like everyone else in the CBI area, had become confused over the relationships...
...Dentists went on strike in Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire. They wanted higher health-insurance payments (from $25.50 to $42) for installing false teeth...