Word: drummond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he was so delighted that he refused to give them up. But the sale could not be withdrawn without breaking faith with Christie's clients, and Sir Joseph set prohibitive prices. The chief other treasures sold were: ten Gainsboroughs for $139,185, including Portrait of Mrs. Drummond when a young lady and A Page, companion picture in blue to the famous Blue Boy, which Henry E. Huntington carried off last year to his California home for $640,000; Sir Thomas Lawrence's Boy with a Dog and Portrait of a Lady; Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait...
...James Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, is now in Poland to study the problem of the Danzig-Polish dispute. Indications that the League will take energetic action to end the trouble one way or another are not lacking...
Died. Sir William Robertson Nicoll (pen name Claudius Clear), 72, for 37 years editor of The British Weekly, at Hampstead, England. His paper (a Free Church organ) numbered among its contributors John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Besant, Henry Drummond. A friend of Lloyd George, Sir William gave him active editorial support during...
...then no one has claimed that "It Is the Law" can approach "The Bat" or "The Thirteenth Chair" in cleverness and finesse. "Bulldog Drummond" is more in its line. Albert Woodruff, as the villain fills us with the same sort of creepy horror that the tomb-like doctor does in the last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac...
Hollis.--"Bull-Dog Drummond", with H. B. Warner. A slap-dash mystery melodrama, which the audience swallows eagerly on the mutual agreement of "No Questions Asked...