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...Watlington Flyer is a friendly little train that chuffs the nine branch-line miles between Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire and Watlington in Oxfordshire. Just one coach and an ancient engine, it sometimes waits for regular customers, has been known to back up for panting latecomers. One day the Flyer's fireman, Anthony Benham, 22, tooted the train's whistle at pretty Janet Croxford, 19; in due course Anthony asked for twelve days off to marry Janet...
...devotion to thousands of little cards, Co-Editor Hulbert refreshed himself with detective stories. But what Sir William chiefly likes to do when not defining a word is to change the subject by defining another one. Last week he was in a hillside cottage above the pretty village of Watlington, plugging away on material for his Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, which has been in progress for twelve years. But as an old word wrestler he well knows that no lexicon is ever complete or wholly correct, and is partly out-of-date before it is even finished...
...carriage. Members of the Assembly pricked this pompous British argument with Bermuda chuckles which swelled into a laugh. They again voted that in Bermuda nobody can have a car on the public roads (they are allowed on private estates), recalled the immortal words of Bermuda's Sir Henry Watlington: "If the King himself wanted to ride in a car in Bermuda he would never be permitted...
...summers, most of the spadework was done by his colleague. Chicago Professor James Root Hulburt and small, Scottish George Watson, longtime subordinate on the Oxford Dictionary who followed Craigie to Chicago in 1926. Last week with the Dictionary well under way, Sir William had returned to his home at Watlington, England, where he will probably stay to work on a new Dictionary of Scottish Tongues...
Married. Augusta Christian Glass Allen, younger daughter of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia; and Isaac Watlington Digges of Manhattan; in Washington...