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...called vitamin C. In 1795, Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered lemons or limes included in the daily diet on British ships. Soon British sailors and then the whole British people became known as "limeys." "Limey" bears no etymological relation to "Blimey," or to Limehouse, a London dock district named for an old lime kiln, or oast...
...three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing her as Princess of Wales (she is still only Heiress Presumptive, on the supposition that a male Heir Apparent may be born to claim the title of Wales), the Welsh bestowed upon her their...
...capital's specialists in bussing pretty girls for the photographers, got a grip on Hilma Seay, 1947 Maid of Cotton, and went into his specialty (see att). The kiss brought her no luck: she was about to take off for France when news came that a dock fire at Le Havre had destroyed $2,000,000 worth of U.S. cotton she was going over to welcome...
...most important, there will be no U.S. installations in large cities, where the services have preempted the best buildings and irritated the Filipinos, who are jealous of their new independence. The Army & Navy will have no prior rights on the Manila waterfront, will take their chance of getting dock space on equal terms with private business...
...Margaret got a special thrill with her first ride in an airplane, when she and the family piled into their royal Vikings for a quick picnic in the Free State Game Reserve. Princess Elizabeth had already had her big moment in East London when she christened a new dry dock and was given five flawless diamonds from...