Word: wolverhampton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with "life in that Vatican City called Downing Street," Macmillan had announced that he was "out to have some fun." In Wolverhampton, while Lady Macmillan unpacked the bags at the hotel, he popped up at a local Butchers' Association ball, announced that he could not "resist a good band." Next day, his pants rolled up, he tramped through the Kidderminster cattle market, chuckled loudly when a runaway pig scampered between his legs (being photographed with pigs was a specialty of a previous Tory Prime Minister. Stanley Baldwin). Later Macmillan dropped in at the Half Moon for a spot...
...Wanderer. In Wolverhampton, England, rush-hour shoppers laughed merrily at Samuel Morgan, shouting as he chased a crowded trolleybus down the main street-until they realized, after he had swung aboard, that he was the driver...
Tale of the Tub. In Wolverhampton, England, Dr. Sidney C. Dyke blamed Britain's threatened water shortage on "the cult of the domestic bath," wrote to the British -Medical Journal: "It is an obvious fallacy that frequent immersion in hot water has any hygienic value whatsoever. Its appeal is purely sensuous...
...London, the Wolverhampton Wanderers clinched the English Soccer League title for the first time in their 66 years, downing Tottenham Hotspur...
Even before St. Paul wrote these words in his letter to the Corinthians, Christians were debating whether or not the dedicated man of God should marry. Last fortnight in Wolverhampton, England, the Rev. Wilfrid Ellis, 60, Anglican bachelor vicar of St. George's Church, took a contemporary look at the matter in his parish magazine...