Word: waacs
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...seemed to be an enquiry bureau to which students from the Gold Coast, Nigeria or Tanganyika came uninvited for help with examination papers in constitutional law. or advice as to where to buy winter woollens." Daughter of a Yorkshire farmer, Authoress Holtby was old enough to serve as a "Waac" (Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps) during the War; afterwards went to Oxford, where she took her M. A. in history at Somerville. An able speaker, a director of Time & Tide, Viscountess Rhondda's weekly, she lives a crowded, busy life in Chelsea, London's intellectual quarter...