Word: gateshead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Konni Zilliacus had been zooming and buzzing around the Labor government's left flank like a gnat harassing an elephant. Several times, the great beast had flapped its ears in protest. Last week it hauled off with its trunk and struck. Konni Zilliacus, M.P. for Gateshead, longtime Fabian and fellow traveler, was formally read out of the Labor Party...
Last Word. In Gateshead, England, Bill Hudson was charged with killing his brother-in-law during a quarrel over the spelling of the word "twelfth...
...Diphtheria. In Gateshead, England, which has had severe diphtheria epidemics (2,911 cases, 147 deaths) during the past ten years, Dr. Richard J. Dodds tried heavy doses of penicillin (besides diphtheria antitoxin) on a test group of 13 hard-hit patients. One died, but the rest recovered more rapidly and with fewer complications than patients who got only antitoxin...
Hottest cry of all came from crinkle-headed "Dry" Thomas Magnay, member from Gateshead, an accountant and ardent bowler, who drinks only water and dry ginger ale. Shouted he: "All things that are sweet and reasonable and Christian are being more and more jeered at and flouted. . . . We know that art and literature have been befouled. ... In literature every man is a cad and every woman a vamp. . . . We have the devotees of St. Vitus' dance called Jazz . . . volplaning down the descending scale. You hear crooners breaking their hearts every night-if anybody broke their necks I should...