Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elite of his time, in France as well as in England. From July 13, 1793, to Dec. 30, 1821, he kept a diary* in which he recorded a wealth of information about his period and the people in it. The Diary was found in 1921 by a firm of auctioneers in London and was later bought by the Morning Post for 110 guineas (about $500). Throughout the year of 1922 the Diary appeared in the Post in serial form. Now it is published in book form.* For the personal side of history, Farington's diary is undoubtedly the most...
...marine insurance firm, Lloyd's calls for considerable admiration. During the present year it has kept track of 15,000 ships and published the fate and whereabouts of every one of them in Lloyd's List, the official bulletin. But as a general insurance firm Lloyd's is even more famous. In Britain it insures anything from the weather to eggs hatching in incubators. To Americans it is famous for having insured against Harry K. Thaw's conviction, for having insured a baseball team against losing a World's Series, for having issued policies...
After reading your message to Congress, the Soviet Government, sincerely anxious to establish at last firm friendship with the people and Government of the United States, informs you of its complete readiness to discuss with your Government all problems mentioned in your message, these negotiations being based on the principle of mutual non-intervention in internal affairs. The Soviet Government will continue wholeheartedly to adhere to this principle, expecting the same attitude from the American Government...
...Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade." Intellectual gymnastics, the tight-lipped playfulness of a strange imagination, sonatas for the piccolo-much that is merely sterile grotesquery - occasionally individual beauty, unfashionably arrayed but genuine-half-a-dozen or a dozen poems, firm-fibred, original, distinguished, ensuring for Mr. Stevens a small but positive niche in the imaginary Valhalla of American poetry. A minor poet of uncompromising intelligence who may outlast many would-be majors...
...firm of London restaurateurs opened a new room in one of their restaurants in which a "daring innovation" is to be made. They have secured the service of the best artists from the Carl Rosa Opera Company to give selections from their repertoire in costume in the afternoon and again after dinner and at supper in the evening. The number of performers is limited by the licensing authorities to six. There is a "producer" and the orchestra is said to be "excellent." Each week is to see a different "cycle" of operas, including Rigoletto, II Trovatore, Faust, Romeo et Juliette...