Word: watford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driver Carnaggio said that a good way to begin was a tour of Washington for $5. The couple, who revealed that they were Mr. & Mrs. Francis J. Smith of Watford, England, agreed. During the two-hour trip Carnaggio interspersed his sight-seeing lecture with many a remark about the beauties of nearby Virginia. Upon returning to the hotel he easily sold the Smiths on the idea of a $75 trip through Virginia. Three weeks later the trio turned up in Manhattan, having been to Mt. Vernon, Arlington, Yorktown, Jamestown, Charlottesville, over the Skyline Drive to Gettysburg, Pa., then north through...
...almost certainly the easiest car in the world to handle. A tiny 5 ft. woman would find it far more amenable on a greasy road than any other car I know. Only once or twice, as we drew close to the Watford-Barnet fork, did I drop to third gear, unable to resist the feel of the claws of speed so gently, modestly garbed in their silken sheaths...
...business man and a gardener, an international financier and an English squire. He enjoys the country life of his home ["Wall Hall''] at Watford with an affection as deep as any of his English ancestors felt for theirs. What his Hertfordshire retreat meant to him is an illustration of the abiding value of the English countryside as an unequalled recreative force...
John Pierpont Morgan presented to the Watford Peace 'Memorial Hospital (near Wall Hall, the Morgan residence at Watford, England) 130 bottles of champagne. Hospital officials were flustered; they prescribe champagne only for seasickness, and Watford is 70 mi. inland. They wrote twice to a local wine merchant, once asking him to buy the champagne outright, once to have it credited against the hospital's brandy account. The champagne remained in the hospital's cellar...
...With particular suspicion do they view Morgan, banker of Great Britain during the War, who has his London house in Grosvenor Square and his English country seat, Wall Hall, at Watford. What is more natural, they think, than . . . that the Morgan group, with its vast investments in British shipping held in vassalage to the British Government, should favor American naval surrender, perpetuating British mastery of the seas...