Word: trafalgar
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...When he died in 1805 on the deck of his Victory after Trafalgar, Lord Nelson was deposited in a cask of brandy for the long trip home. The legend that sailors tapped the cask and drank off the brandy is apparently apocryphal...
...second day in town, still carefully guarded by a detachment of two motorcycle policemen and a squad car, Malenkov drove through the West End to see the sights. As they approached Trafalgar Square, the busiest crossroads in London, the police swung around one way as had been planned, but instead of following them, Malenkov's ZIS swung off the other way. There was a squealing of brakes as his guards discovered the wile, but when at last they caught up, there was Malenkov, unprotected in the middle of London's surging crowds. He had been told, he said...
...wolf dog that had fallen through. An R.A.F. helicopter winged its way across Suffolk to rescue icebound swans, and a Mrs. Phyllis Buckle, 57, of London did her bit by carrying 6 Ibs. of corn, two loaves of bread and a hot-water bottle to the pigeons huddling in Trafalgar Square...
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...