Word: wappingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London is what Norman Collins' book is really about. Percy and his blonde are simply two of the dozen-odd principal characters used by Author Collins as a means of mapping London-south from Camden Town, north from Wapping. Absent from his map is the London that is most...
(See Cover) In Simla last week, 21 Indians and one Englishman struggled to solve one of the world's most vexatious problems - giving self-government to India. The Englishman bore the resounding proconsular title of His Excellency, Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wavell (rhymes with naval) of Cyrenaica...
". . . New York ain't America, John. But Chicago is. . . . Well, I guess it's much the same way with us. Manchester, Bradford, or Newcastle - they'll tell you London's all right, but they're the places where the jobs get done. . . . Down here back...
Died. William Wymark ("W.W.") Jacobs, 79, for almost 50 years a favorite British humorist; after long illness; in London. For his comic Dickensian tales of London dockside life, beaky, grey-thatched Jacobs drew on boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed...