Word: yorkshiremen
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...Mayfair's fashionable St. Mark's Church on North Audley Street where the ceremony took place, musical bigwigs like Sir Thomas Beecham rubbed elbows with Britain's royal dukes & duchesses and 200 stout Yorkshiremen from the village of Harewood, who had come up to town in Sunday best to salute their young landlord. As the bridal automobile swept away from the St. James's Palace reception that followed, a single tiny Cinderella-like silver slipper could be seen bobbing in the dust behind...
...year ago they earned him first prize at an international exhibition in Venice. Last week, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore let the homefolks in on what he had been doing by holding a retrospective show in the red brick, grey-roofed town of Wakefield. Six thousand Yorkshiremen turned up to see what all the fuss was about. The proof of Henry Moore's pudding, they figured, would be in the eating...
...Plain Yorkshiremen found it pretty hard to digest, but few gallerygoers found the show impossible. A bespectacled schoolgirl named Moreen Beedle was one of the few. "My dad said I should come along and look at it," she explained, "because he was at school with Henry Moore. But I don't know, looks a proper mess to me." Ronald Skipsey, a tweedy old insurance man, stayed on the fence: "They say genius is akin to madness, don't they?" But it was a redfaced Wakefield cab driver, Tom Pickering, who came closest to the Yorkshire concensus...
...Bright Day is jampacked with contempt for the unreal life of Hollywood. Nevertheless, Author Priestley manages to fit into his story a stirring boy-meets-girl romance, a stunning film star, and a gang of hearty Yorkshiremen that any Hollywood director would love to get his hands...
...experts still rely on their projected coaxial cables to bring television to the north of England, explain that Ormesby Bank reception was possible only because of its 700-ft. elevation, high mast, ideal atmospheric conditions. BBC can guarantee none of these reception assets to all Yorkshiremen...