Word: weymouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From within a pub at Weymouth (England) after hours, a passing constable one night last week heard a cheerio voice propose: "Come on, let's have one for the road." His duty was clear. He routed out the publican, haled him before a magistrate. But the laugh was on the constable. The voice from within was no after-closing tosspot's, it was Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen, No. 1 Nazi propagandist to Britons, tossing off a Briticism over short-wave radio...
...already know, is about the dear old lady who said "The Germans can't frighten me, sitting up there in those balloons." . . . The most succulent rumor I heard the other day was that seven U-boats had given themselves up and were landed on the beach at Weymouth. Why on the beach, God knows ! If they had given themselves up they would presumably be in dock somewhere...
Announced by Minister Cross were five control points where he proposed to have the British Navy go over questionable cargoes. These were Kirkwall (in the Orkney Islands), Weymouth and the Downs (English ports), Gibraltar and Haifa (Palestine). Neutral vessels bound toward Germany were politely requested to call at these ports, to save trouble all round. To reduce delay, ships were urged to have their papers and cargo manifests drawn up in convenient duplicate for the British officers...
Jack Cahill, Bill Campbell took on a dean of the bar in Weymouth Kirkland and forced him to obey a subpoena for key evidence in the Annenberg case, which Lawyer Kirkland unsuccessfully tried to ignore on the ground of sanctity in the relation between lawyer & client. In Bill Campbell's hands will be the red-hot Skidmore case. Cardinal Mundelein and labor-loving Bishop Sheil are among his most active admirers...
...Waterloo, the Armada, Cape Trafalgar, Jutland have shown that it is not equipment but spirit which wins battles for Britain. It did not matter, therefore, that when King George VI, who personally owns more ships than anyone else in the world,* went out into the fog and drizzle in Weymouth Bay last week, what he saw was 133 ghosts-some of them round-bellied, rust-patched, long since war-weary. What counted was their complement of 12,000 newly assembled reservists, swelling Britain's total mobilized sea force...