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Caesar landed where Deal now drowses and William the Conqueror made good his bid at Hastings. just beyond the Sussex line. Much later the furtive wink of smugglers' lamps enlivened coastal life, put money in the pockets of those who cared to lend a hand to circumvent the King...
Iron Lover. Between the Sir John known to the British public, and the one known to his attractive, blonde, considerably younger wife, there is a vast difference. To her he is notably attentive. She is always present when he addresses the House of Commons. On their small Sussex estate he putters in the garden, takes soil samples from various spots to be analyzed, constantly plans the big landscaping job he will do when peace eases the tight labor market...
...London Times described as "having a political trend to the Left." Several times in her life she had had intimations of insanity. During the blitz she was twice bombed out of her house, and moved to Monks House, a long, low, green frame dwelling surrounded by gardens, in Sussex. On March 28, 1941, she wrote a note to Vanessa and one to her husband, took her stick and walked across the Downs to the River Ouse. Later her hat and stick were found on the river bank. On April 2, her husband said: "Mrs. Woolf is presumed to be dead...
...legend of our time" is just a character in a detective story. They insist that since his last public appearance (1927) in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes has simply retired from his smoke-filled rooms at London's 2216 Baker Street to a bee farm in Sussex. At last week's dinner no whiff of Holmesian ritual was omitted. Holmesian pundits floored one another with complicated I.Q. tests based on the Master's "Sacred Writings," filled the air with erudite Sherlockeries. From a dais, the Rev. Leslie Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned a "prayer," especially...
...afoul of British womanhood when he was misreported as having criticized the British female figure. What he actually said: "An Eve-I want an Eve. Where is there an Eve symbolic of her sex?" Result: a mass demonstration of shapely women in the streets of his native village (Ditchling, Sussex...