Word: throgmorton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government has whipped people up into such a lather against Italy that Labor daren't oppose sanctions, even if they mean war?" This Mr. Lansbury could see clearly enough. Several hundred London stockbrokers and clerks last week mobbed Sir Oswald Mosley's British Fascist news-youths in Throgmorton Street, seized their papers and burned them, knocked off the helmets of London bobbies who tried to intervene. At Cardiff the captain and crew of an Italian steamer were driven below decks by brawny longshoremen who swarmed aboard and plastered every door and hatchway with posters reading "Down With...
...stockbrokers of Throgmorton Street, the officers of the Cairo City relayed a rumor extremely offensive to touchy Italian honor, to wit: "Recently an Italian ship which failed on entering Alexandria to salute British warships was forced to return to the sea and re-enter the port with the proper salute." If British admirals in non-British ports were thus humiliating Italian sea captains last week in the manner of traffic policemen, then Europe was indeed at the mercy of an incident...
...steals a London stockbroker's dignity steals practically his purse. Last week the City chuckled at the plight of William Lewis Rowland Paul Sebastian Blennerhassett, wealthy Throgmorton Street stockbroker, addicted like all his ilk to eating lobster salad at Pimm's. In King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with...
Whimsical, the advertisement which blighted Broker Blennerhassett began: "Take warning of the fate of Mr. Blennerhassett, as worthy a citizen as ever ate lobster at Pimm's or holed a putt at Walton Heath. 'Sound Man,' they said in Throgmorton Street...
...only Blennerhassett in Throgmorton Street," testified Broker Blennerhassett. whose lawyers emphasized that he is a War hero, holder of the D. S. O. "A letter addressed simply 'Blennerhassett. Throgmorton Street' would reach me and I used to lunch regularly at Pimm...