Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PARTNERSHIP (544 pp.)-Beatrice Webb, edited by Barbara Drake and Margaret I. Cole-Longmans, Green...
...crowds of 60,000 to 70,000 watched the last games of the waning football season; millions more sat home and placed bets in the football pools. One lucky Londoner won ?55,000, which, as the Daily Graphic pointed out, was almost exactly what the late Lord Passfield (Sidney Webb) left in his will. There was a public outcry because the Quantock Hunt (staghounds) had been allowed petrol rations of 7½ gallons for each deer bagged. But British huntsmen were scheduling more than 100 chases between Easter and the end of April. In Bavaria, the horse-racing season opened...
Sitting Pretty. Clifton Webb is waspishly amusing as the world's most versatile baby-sitter (TIME, March...
...Sidney Webb was shy and 31, Beatrice Potter* ardent and 32, when Cupid realized that they were made for each other. Courtship began at the Glasgow Co-operative Congress of 1890, where Sidney hewed one of Beatrice's political articles to pieces and rewrote it. In 1891, thrown into each other's arms at the Lincoln Cooperative Congress, they secretly plighted their troth. A year later they were off on their honeymoon-an impassioned examination of Dublin labor problems, rounded off with a joint appearance at the Glasgow Trades Union Congress...
...been very helpful to us, Norman H. Brooks '49, ex-committee chairman, said yesterday. "They've given us permission to bring in as many as we can get, but lack of men to take care of them will limit the number of boys." N. Conant Webb, Jr. '49 will be in charge of the program...