Word: ago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty years ago this week Louis Bleriot, Frenchman, flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his plane prominently displayed in the historical aviation exhibit of London's International Aero Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales opened last week...
...Months ago the brothers ceased speaking to each other. Last week Lord Kylsant intimated frigidly that on at least one occasion Lord St. Davids had written a letter expressly to inform his brother that he would not speak to him. It was a quarrel de luxe, peer against peer, brother against brother, tycoon against tycoon-over a $10,000,000 technicality...
...trouble started one year ago, when Lord Kylsant ordered the issuance of another $10,000,000 worth of debenture shares. Lord St. Davids was and is one of the two debenture trustees, the other being, until last week, the Duke of Abercorn. Lord St. Davids was not informed of the new issue and first became aware of it when he read an advertisement in the Times wherein his own name was used conspicuously. Although he admitted last week that there was nothing illegal about such a procedure, Tycoon St. Davids was grievously vexed, brooded long, and one day demanded certain...
Serious to the Royal Family was the condition of Prince George's stomach. Stomach trouble caused him to be transferred four months ago, from the Navy to the more leisurely Foreign Office. Last week by doctor's advice he gave up even this job, retired to the country to rest and diet until the autumn...
...corner of the right lung of His Majesty George V. People all over the world who have ever had to have their pleural cavities drained following pleural pneumonia are vividly conscious that a channel was cut into His Majesty's chest to let the poison drain out. Fortnight ago six royal physicians descried and decided that the royal abscess was not draining properly. They announced that they would have to operate again. To calm a worried public, Court officials quickly declared that the operation would be comparatively minor...