Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At Sea the war was quiet. Finland announced that she was fortifying the Aland Islands and had mined their approaches. There was no protest from Sweden, which alone might object to the proximity of big guns to Stockholm. Russia announced her blockade of the Gulf of Finland, and Finland said...
*Queen Elizabeth did her bit last week by eating a threepenny (5?) luncheon in a rural home for evacuated London slum children, proclaiming it "very good." It was announced that Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose would send Christmas presents to evacuated French children.
Making plans for a four-generation family Christmas party, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt resurrected her Yule Rule No. 1: no warlike toys on the family tree. Said she, gloomily: "From the looks of things, I am afraid refraining from warlike toys doesn't do much good."
Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged...
Warden Smith and Deputy Meikrantz were proud of Prisoner Yun's lament.They themselves had inspired Yun to his effort, for they set great store by the lyric abilities of the Chinese. A few years back, a hatchetman inmate had composed an unforgettable Christmas carol entitled: I'd Rather...