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...days of the welfare state. Methodism's great 19th century battles on behalf of the over worked, the overcrowded and the under paid in the lusty turmoil of the Indus trial Revolution have now been won in the sooty cities of the Midlands, on the docksides of the Tyne and in the slag-heaped valleys of Wales. And Methodist zeal for social betterment is left with such low-calorie crusades as temperance, the discouragement of gambling and the abolition of vulgar postcards from sea side shops...
Towards the end of May, the 16,000-ton Polish luxury liner Batory moved into drydock at Hebburn-on-Tyne. That night the British harbor pilot, Harry Leslie, had dinner with cheery, gold-toothed Captain Jan Cwiklinski in his two-room suite below the bridge. But when Leslie went back on board two weeks later, the captain was missing. "The officers gave me to understand he was sick on shore," he said, "but . . . there was a studied avoidance of any mention...
...Touring England in George Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess, Actress Katharine Hepburn got an invitation in New-castle-on-Tyne to step out with 350 visiting sailors from two U.S. destroyers. Resourcefully she barred all visitors to her hotel room, had her phone disconnected, rushed straight back into seclusion after the show. Later she explained: "I fear no man. I hate being crowded by people, and sailors are people...
...Right is Reader Freeman, who might also have mentioned: Glasgow, Glaswegian; Salisbury, Sarumite; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Geordie; Portsmouth, Pompeyite...
Since the beginning of the present century, historians like Sydney George Fisher, Claude H. Van Tyne, Francis V. Greene, by a process known as making Washington less of a statue and more of a human being, have busily reduced the prodigious figure to something nearer their own size and understanding. They were doing quite nicely when along came Historian John C. Fitzpatrick, by whom, says Knollenberg testily, "their work has been largely undone." So exasperated does Historian Knollenberg become in undoing this undoing that he accuses Historian Fitzpatrick of taking literally a remark of Washington Irving's: "There...