Word: swithin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain. St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair. For forty days 'twill rain nae mair...
...small, carpeted, oak-paneled room in the offices of N. M. Rothschild & Sons on London's St. Swithin's Lane, six immaculate gentlemen gather every morning except Sundays and bank holidays to fix the world price of gold. These six men, the so-called Gold Committee, represent six great British bullion brokers: N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Mocatta & Goldsmid, Samuel Montagu & Co., Pixley & Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co. Before each member is a telephone directly connected with twelve telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining...
Reginald John Peter Swithin, third Earl of Havershot, had a face like a gorilla,- "much more so, indeed," he confessed, "than most gorillas have." No Earl at birth, he prided himself on having worked his way up, with an uncle dying here, a cousin there, until the title fell...
...early stage is shown here in the vigorous but unskilled drawings from the "Life and Miracles of St. Edmund," of the early part of the century. Its surprising achievement in elegance and narrative skill, a few decades later, is seen in a splendidly decorated Bible, probably executed in St. Swithin's Priory at Winchester...