Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night month ago the S. S. District of Columbia, ancient sidewheeler of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co., chuffed down the quiet Potomac on its regular overnight run from Washington to Norfolk. About midnight a ''red-faced'' man stepped up to the deserted refreshment counter and ordered a bottle of beer. Just as he was served, a lean, bespectacled, elderly man, whose grey head was topped with a brown beret, sauntered up beside him. Because they seemed to be total strangers, the clerk was surprised when the red-faced man handed his beer over...
...disappearance was apparently the first drama in Mr. Keene's life. He had lived with his wife in a modest residential hotel in Washington, had a son who had graduated from Annapolis. Once an architect, at 63 he was a not too prosperous real estate broker, bound for Norfolk cheaply by boat presumably to complete an inconsequential real-estate deal...
...lists. It is, in short, a mirror of the early Victorian era. In the character of Frances Harcourt the reader is led through the highways and byways of that period when the tiny, buxom, fairy-Queen Victoria was about to ascend the throne of England. Fanny, a native of Norfolk, prepares her pilgrimage to London to see the coronation which was to occur sometime that summer; no one seemed to know exactly when...
...thousands who never heard of that able amateur artist, the Very Rev. William Foxley Norris, Dean of Westminster. Coronation year was his year. The Abbey is Dean Norris' parish church; he was as responsible for the ecclesiastical details of last week's ceremony as the Duke of Norfolk was. for the civil. In copes of gold (woven for the Coronation of Charles II) his humblest prebendaries had places in the Abbey procession, while most of the Bishops of Britain, many of them Lords, sat in scarlet & white on the sidelines...
Newsreels. Immediately after the King's broadcast from Buckingham Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Norfolk went to a private projection room in London's West End to view the 7,000 ft. of film made in the Abbey. A close-up of Queen Mary weeping they promptly cut out. News of this excision soon spread, and thousands of British cinemaddicts who flocked to the movies were bitterly disappointed to see how little of the Abbey ceremony had been left in. Audiences vented their spleen on the Archbishop by sniggering when he was shown examining...