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Word: wandsworth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Chamberlain" himself, darkly muttering a ditty, who stole the show: I'm Watty the warden from Wandsworth With helmet and gas mask complete. . . . When the bombers on high Drop their gas from the sky I'll waggle my rattle until they pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: We Haven't Got the Jitters | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Soult. Crusader Van der Elst assembled 65,000 signatures to a petition for a reprieve; offered to hire a brain surgeon to prove that Brigstock was insane. Nonetheless the trap was due to drop under Brigstock at 9 a. m. one day last week in South London's Wandsworth Prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crusade Against Death | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...cell corridor of Wandsworth Gaol last week a white jacketed hospital orderly nodded pleasantly to a group of British Justices of the Peace seated uncomfortably on folding chairs. He then unpacked a stethoscope and a bottle of antiseptic from his medical case. Meanwhile, an assistant keeper had attached leather thongs to the three points of a six-foot wooden triangle, set up before an iron pillar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wandsworth Walloper | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...opinion a public opinion which approves of prizefighting, including the knockout blow, cannot logically condemn flogging. Men and women who flock to an exhibition between the 'Game Chick' and the 'Battling Brown,'* would gladly see 'Burglar Bill' punished by the 'Wandsworth Walloper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wandsworth Walloper | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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