Word: waterlooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long as we keep on the way we are going now, we won't need to worry about the outcome...
...Jack Hylton's orchestra. His specialty: English North Country songs, the phlegmatic Lancashire monologues that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion at Blackpool zoo, moving his outraged parents to lament...
...every British schoolboy has often been told, the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Last week Eton offered 15 acres of its famed Playing Field called Agar's Plough to the British Government for husbandry in the Grow-More-Food program. With respectful gratitude the Buckinghamshire Agricultural Committee touched its forelock and accepted...
...Waterloo, and the British troops were lined up on parade. The inspecting Seargeant was the terror of every man in the regiment except a certain Sam Small, a Lancashire man. Sam dropped his musket as the Sergeant passed...
...They shot 2,000 telegrams to their local branches. From Lands End to John 0'Groats the grey-green overcoats began to gather their cars around station platforms. Other grey-green overcoats in London were leading little lines of towheads with lunch boxes and gas masks to Euston, Waterloo, Charing Cross, Victoria, Paddington stations, stuffing them into cars with more grey-green overcoats headed for whatever destination the clearest track presented. Each towhead had a postcard to send home when it got where it was going. The scheme had worked perfectly on paper, but would it work? Lady Reading...