Word: maida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potatoes or the point of a razor-sharp shiv. Last week London's sensational penny press was black with scare headlines suggesting that gang warfare of a cruder type had come to The Smoke. Four men had pulled up in a car before a dingy boarding house in Maida Vale, crossed the sidewalk in broad daylight, entered the house and pumped lead into a sleazy race-track gambler. "Police believe," reported the conservative Daily Telegraph, "that the murder is gang war with the lid off . . . The razor and knuckle-duster gangs have turned to firearms." The Daily Sketch wondered...
...change he is determined to make. So far, the BBC has played its broadcast performances in a huge, empty studio in suburban Maida Vale. If Sir Malcolm has his way, he will open the doors to an invited public as Toscanini and the NBC orchestra do. Says he: "One misses the presence of people listening...