Word: trafalgar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helmore's realization at the end of the play that there are worse things in life than an untouched debutante seems quite convincing. His problem with accent is alarming; allegedly proper Bostonian and Harvardian, his dialect would place him somewhere between Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. But he is agreeably suave, unfaltering, and journalistic. Inger Stevens, the innocent partner, is difficult to confine on one theatre stage. While she must be obstreperous, she loses control completely. She is pretty, though, and in frank talk with Helmore is quite expressive. G. Albert Smith, as her father, has lost all Southern restraint...
N.Z.Z. has been cold and deep ever since it started in 1780. In 1805 the paper reported briefly the defeat of the French fleet at Trafalgar and cautiously added: "In the first moments of such events, one is inclined to exaggerate conditions. It might therefore be better to wait for reports which are written in cold blood and come from safer sources." Such careful news coverage and restraint have earned the paper so much respect that when it does speak out forcefully, N.Z.Z. often gets what it wants, e.g., its insistent campaigning has given the Swiss press as much freedom...
London's Economist, called the right to bus jump "one of the symbols that distinguishes Britain from Prussia." But letter writers complained to their favorite papers that bus jumping "by athletic, predatory men" was un-English. Bus drivers themselves met the crisis with the required tact. At Trafalgar Square traffic lights, when one Londoner leaped aboard, the conductor grinned and addressed the passengers, "Shall I chuck him off or give him a medal?" As lights halted another bus at Lower Regent Street, the conductor bellowed cheerfully, "Stand by to repel boarders...
...even higher, but at least Britain's housewives were legally free of one tyrant-the local butcher. Last week, after standing in queues outside butchers' doors for more than a decade, the Association of London Housewives got to their feet once more to stage a rally in Trafalgar Square and beef about the butcher...
...work quickly became popular. His first collection, The Loom of Years (1902), was welcomed alike by George Meredith and Punch. When he wrote The Phantom Fleet, a poetic plea for a bigger & better British navy, even the Admiralty was roused. "The Navy League made use of it on Trafalgar Day ... and presented me with a walkingstick made of the oak and bronze of Nelson's Victory...