Word: bromley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Half way between Rugely and Lichfield, Staffordshire, is the village of Kings Bromley, where once a lady lived, and was wooed by one Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry. Forthwith, she rode through the streets of Coventry at noon on a white horse and she had nothing on at all but the long-yellow hair which hung down from her head. She was the Lady Godiva, and her ride delivered the people from a tax their lord had put on them and which history has told about. This month the village of Kings Bromley comes up for sale...
...Philadelphia last week, one John B. Bolton, superintendent at John Bromley & Sons, Inc. (laces, carpets) ate his breakfast with a leisureliness that masked a new gusto while Mrs. Bolton methodically sorted soiled clothes for the electric washing machine. Both tried to act as they had regularly done all the years of their marriage. But their red-headed daughter, Eliza May, for three months bedridden with a nervous breakdown, was openly joyful. Now she could go traveling for her health, for Father had just become a millionaire...
...Fred Bromley, Assistant Secretary of the General Council of the Trade Union Congress, in a special meeting took steps to reopen negotiations with the men and the railway companies, but all his efforts were abortive. As the Labor Party, the political organ of Labor, had left the matter entirely in the hands of Mr. Bromley and the Trades Union Congress, it did not take any action on its own account. For this reason, and the fact that Labor chose td antagonize the public at the moment the Labor Party was stepping into the shoes of the Conservative Government, the strike...