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Usage examples of adelphi.

Behind and above him to his right were the lights of the Adelphi Terrace, looking like some fantastic pleasure ship viewed from water level, and he could hear faint music from there when the breeze slackened.

It'd be quickest, yer Honor, to take a boat down the underground canal straight to the Adelphi Arches.

And when we've got rid of the clown and the wizard we'll take him down the underground river and dump him by the Adelphi somewhere.

The Adelphi Centre at Langham, Essex, an offshoot of the Adelphi magazine, founded in 1936 for Summer Schools, conferences etc.

From 1930-36 he edited the Adelphi and met Orwell as a young contributor.

To take one example, during the earlier period of the war the pacifist monthly the Adelphi, edited by Middleton Murry, accepted at its face value the German claim to be a "Socialist" state fighting against "plutocratic" Britain, and more or less equated Germany with Russia.

Hitler's invasion of Russia made nonsense of this line of thought and, in the five or six issues that have followed, the Adelphi has performed the surprising feat of not mentioning the Russo-German war.

Comrade Orwell, former fellow-traveller of the pacifists and regular contributor to the pacifist Adelphi -- which he now attacks!

The Anarchist pamphlet to which he refers is entitled The Russian Myth, and the editor of the Adelphi during the earlier part of the war was not John Middleton Murry, but the late Max Plowman.

Mr Woodcock tries to discredit me by saying that (a) I once served in the Indian Imperial Police, (b) I have written articles for the Adelphi and was mixed up with the Trotskyists in Spain, and (c) that I am at the B.

Jack Common (1903-68), writer and editor, had met Orwell around 1930 through the Adelphi and had remained a friend.

The Adelphi, glowing beckoningly at the foot of the hill, managed the interesting trick of being both near by and astonishingly distant.

I followed them helplessly, and by a kind of miracle they hurtled me down the hill, safely across the road and up the steps to the entrance to the Adelphi, where I celebrated my arrival by making a complete circuit in the revolving door so that I emerged into open air once again, before plunging back in and being flung with a startling suddenness into the Adelphi's grand and lofty lobby.

I would happily have stayed longer, but I had to check out of the hotel, so I regretfully departed and walked back through central Liverpool's fine Victorian streets to the Adelphi, where I grabbed my things and checked out.

Chapter Nineteen THE LIGHT FROM THE MOVIE PROJECTOR lanced through the humid darkness of the Adelphi Cinema, West Lowellton, centering on the glittering screen.