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Melanie McGrath is a Romford-born English non-fiction writer and crime novelist.

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Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a pile of brightly colored fragments had been transformed into the silk irises, forget-me-not, violets and roses that would adorn the hats of women and girls more fortunate than themselves.

Flower, Girl, Rose, Silk, Spots, Twisting

Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. . . . By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. . . . . There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.

Army, Government, Grip, Sweeten, Winter, Work

To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.

Beach, Failure, Rushing, Steer, Washed

Mara Wilson

Mara Wilson

Mike Holmgren

Mike Holmgren

Alberta Hunter

Alberta Hunter

Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Molotov

Rick Danko

Rick Danko

Mel Smith

Mel Smith

Omid Kordestani

Omid Kordestani

Joel Ross

Joel Ross

Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin

Nick Kroll

Nick Kroll

Earl Hamner, Jr.

Earl Hamner, Jr.

Omarosa Manigault

Omarosa Manigault