Word: townshend
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...Lucius Townshend Wing...
...green, grey weekend in 1896, George Bernard Shaw (see above) went down to Stratford St. Andrew in Suffolk to visit his good Fabian friends, Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The other guest was an idealistic Irish girl named Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend: she came from County Cork; her father was a millionaire. After the holiday Shaw wrote his beloved correspondent, Actress Ellen Terry: "I am going to refresh my heart by falling in love with her. I love falling in love...
Died. Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw, 67, wife of "G.B.S."; in London...
...four great bastions of the British Empire; he had to dispose of Britain's fate in the Far East. In less than an hour he had to make up his mind to do something that no sizable British Army had done since Major General Sir Charles Townshend capitulated at Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia in 1916, and, before that, since Cornwallis gave up at Yorktown in 1781. He had a matter of minutes in which to decide whether to shake Winston Churchill's Cabinet, to depress all of Britain, to undermine the Allies' faith in British fighting...
...coach journey, Omai observed: "We go one way; houses, fences, trees all go other way. Ver' fine-sit, talk, maybe sleep, and at same time go!" Lady Carew was enchanted when she asked Omai how he liked tea. "Ver' well," he said, "not ver' ill." Lady Townshend was even more enchanted when she asked Omai how he liked notorious Lady Carew. "Ver' nice," he said, "not ver' nasty...