[PW] Re: ? "Look the East End in the Face" (Quotation Query #632)

[Jeanne Schramm]

Not that this makes any difference, but the quote sometimes appears as:
          "...I can look the East End in the EYE."
               Jeanne Schramm, WLSC, W. Liberty, WV  26074

On 5/30/06, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
> I believe the following may be the earliest documented reference to a
> famous World War II quotation:
>
> [<i>To a London policeman, 13 Sept. 1940:</i>] I'm glad we've been
> bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.
> quoted in Betty Spencer Shew, <i>Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother</i>
> (1955)
>
> Does anyone have access to the Shew book to verify the occurrence and
> wording of this quotation in that book?
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
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