Word: twickenham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were not already enough Irishmen in Britain to worry the bobbies, 5,000 more crossed over at week's end for the England-Eire rugby match at Twickenham. A bomb was found on the steamer, some 900 Irishmen were questioned...
...Wandering Jew (Twickenham) presents the cavernous countenance of Conrad Veidt in four different makeups, representing four phases of the tedious life of that legendary Jew who made one of the worst guesses on record. In Jerusalem, Veidt is a rich Jew with a sick wife whom he asks Christ to heal. To his vexation the Messiah (off screen) suggests that he return the woman to the man from whom he stole her. As Christ goes to be crucified, the Jew curses and spits at Him. Condemned to wander the earth, Veidt next turns up during the Crusades. He jousts with...
Only four times since 1871 have Oxford and Cambridge failed to play their annual game of rugby. Last week at Twickenham, before a shivering crowd of 40,000, they played their 58th match. Soon after it started, Oxford ran the ball over for a try (3 points), then kicked goal to convert (2 points). Cambridge snapped back with a try but failed to convert. Desperately Cambridge tried to catch up, but its drop kicks missed by a hair, and Oxford's backs held like iron. The score, 5-to-3, marked Oxford's 27th victory in the series...
...convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was culture's palmiest day," challenged Gilbert, and the Vagabond took up the gauntlet. It was first in the grotto at Twickenham that he sought the substance of culture, but a high-pitched voice reciting from a rapt bevy of matrons...
...royal lover of beauteous Gaby Deslys, refused to return to Portugal in 1919 when Royalists proclaimed him King again. Actress Deslys died in 1920, also of a throat infection. Dom Manoel retired with his wife (whose marriage Pope Benedictus XV had refused to annul) to his farm at Twickenham, near London, settled down to a life of farming, tennis, fencing and following horse races. He died while his valet's daughter was being married. He had promised to be best...