Word: whitechapel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September 1940 Faith, who was rearing a kitten, grew restless and decided to leave her niche upstairs in the rectory and move to a downstairs recess used for storing music. Three days later German bombers roared over Whitechapel. "Roofs and masonry exploded," runs the legend on Faith's plaque, "the whole house blazed, four floors fell through in front of her. Fire and water all around . . ." Attracted by a glow in the sky, Rector Ross came hurrying back from a trip to Westminster. "The cat and kitten are both dead," said the firemen...
...some coal, no matter how little, and no matter if it meant standing all day long in the queue. But after two hours in a bone-chilling wind, Mrs. Chimes collapsed. Neighbors carried her to her small, cold, prefabricated dwelling in the bomb-scarred slums of London's Whitechapel...
...Whitechapel pub, the Northampton Arms, a tailor's cutter discussed The Crisis. No, he couldn't blame the Socialists. Then he reflected the typical defensive class-consciousness of many Laborites: "Still, I don't think they've had enough education to deal with the twisting coal owners...
Last week London admirers of the Georgian prepared to place a plaque on the house where he had stayed. But nobody knew the exact street address. To Moscow went an appeal for information. The Kremlin's answer: Joseph Stalin had forgotten too; it was somewhere in the Whitechapel slums...
When Parliament next reassembles, the dockers, garmentworkers and munition makers of Whitechapel, in London's squalid East End, will be represented in the House of Commons by Petty Officer Walter James Edwards, stoker in the Royal Navy's mine sweeper H.M.S. Speedwell...