world-doings

Updated: June 12, 2025

Both could read of world-doings and national affairs in the big London dailies; but the man from the shires, from the little country towns, from the far-off villages of the British Isles, could hug to himself the weekly that was like another letter from home with its intimate, sometimes trivial, details of persons and places so familiar in the happy uneventful days before the war.

George Herbert Fosdike Nichols - Pushed and the Return Push