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...British Parliamentary sense-as distinguished from Adolf Hitler's "heads will roll in the sand!" Last week the Labor Congress, satisfied that it had adopted a policy fresh and vigorous enough to win back millions of lost Labor votes, adjourned singing "The Red Flag." Spit in the Cream! Blackpool is a North British seaside resort that is anything but Red. Rumbling into Blackpool last week came the first-class cars of delegates to the 59th Annual Congress of the Conservative Party. Brass bands boomed "God Save the King." In hurried fashion the Party (which holds 471 seats...
...raise funds for a new trial, Rev, Harold Davidson, the white-haired, ill-famed Rector of Stiffkey, England, who was deposed for improper conduct with girls he was "rescuing" (TIME, July 18), last week put himself on display in a barrel on the seaside promenade of Blackpool, next to a girl fasting in a barrel. Crowds flocked to see. Explained he: "I am not going to fast. But I shall be here from 10 a. m. to midnight. While I am in the barrel, I shall be occupied with preparing my case. I want 200 pounds sterling for a special...
...jail at Blackpool, England, Frank Sheridan ate his breakfast, then ate his spoon. Still hungry, he tore the chain and staple from his cell door and ate them too. Satisfied, Prisoner Sheridan lay down, went to sleep...
...Blackpool, England, mourners at the obsequies of Sir John Bickerstaffe noticed on his funeral wreath the following message, delivered to Sir John every night by his chauffeur: "The fire's dying out; the water is nice and hot; the windows and doors are bolted; the mouse traps are set and there are no mice; good-night Sir John...
...corresponding classes in England. H. L. Mencken proves this point thoroughly in his masterly study The American Language -if, indeed, it needs proving, which it does not. The lowest and "toughest" holiday crowd at Coney Island uses better speech, and far better manners, than the mob at Margate, Blackpool, Brighton or Southend. Mr. Dowse contradicts himself when he refers to "amiable qualities" and then states that the conspicuous examples of "the latter" are too long to rewrite. The oft-repeated and hackneyed objection to "famed," "one," "onetime," and "able," is a poor substitute for criticism, and in any case there...