Word: clapham
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most part, Theroux seems to share the attitudes he describes in a character in "The Man on the Clapham Omnibus," a member of the peerage who inherited along with his title debts which have made him poor and bitter...
...gardens today are no larger than one-tenth of an acre. Through the National Gardens Scheme, a plan started in 1927 to raise money for charity, 1,250 private gardens are now open to the public. The owner may be a duchess in Mayfair or a police sergeant in Clapham; the garden, big as a country club or small as a driveway...
...willing to argue with that post-Waterloo appreciation-not in Britain, where gambling of every variety is not so much diversion as obsession. From the dowdy bingo parlors of Clapham Junction to the nobby casinos of Mayfair, the British now spin the wheels of chance to the rhythm of $15 billion a year. The main reason for the boom is clear to all: Britain is the most liberal gambling society in the world...
Criticism of Heath. The costs in lost production and exports, said Benn, will be ten times that-or close to $1 billion a week. That is a loss that Britain cannot afford, since its balance of payments deficit for 1973 is already a staggering $5.2 billion. Said Sir Michael Clapham, president of the Confederation of British Industry: "A three-day week is pretty near disastrous for a trading nation. The average industry can't break even operating at 65%. So pretty well every firm will be taking a loss." As the consequences of the shortened week began...
Standish Meacham, Jr., an English historian and author of "Henry Thornton of Clapham, 1760-1815." He has been an instructor since 1961 and Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Winthrop House since 1962. He holds the A.B. (1954) from Yale and the Ph.D. (1961) from Harvard...