Word: globe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What brought His Majesty, last week, to the City of London? Three years ago he came to lay the cornerstone of a new building designed to house the great association of merchants, shipowners, underwriters and ship-insurance brokers which is known throughout the Globe simply as Lloyd's. Last week the new home of this most potent association stood completed, and was opened by the King-Emperor. Majestic it stands in Leadenhall Street, not far from the Bank of England. Spacious, commodious and ultramodern, the new Lloyd's seems as remote as possible from the 17th Century coffee house...
...helping hand of hypnotism has long been recognized in medicine. Last fortnight it was lauded on opposite sides of the globe. Professor William Brown at Oxford University told in the second of the Terry lectures at Yale about curing alcoholics, drug addicts, shell shocked soldiers by hypnosis.* In Odessa, Russia, Dr. J. Kalachnik reported the successful use of hypnosis in childbirth...
During the first 15 years of her married life, Mrs. Hoover, herself an able geologist, accompanied her husband to China, to Mandalay, to St. Petersburg, to the Alps, except when the exigencies of motherhood (two sons) prevented. Hoover offices girdled the globe, above and below the equator. Hoover homes followed them, but, according to Biographer Irwin, 1907 was the only year prior to 1914 in which the Hoovers did not spend some time at their California base...
...Ripley began drawing "Believe It or Not" eight years ago in the old New York Globe. Today, he employs a linguist, two readers, a secretary; receives an average of 1,000 letters a week. He has traveled in 53 countries in search of material. Simon & Schuster will soon publish "Believe It or Not" in book form...
Twice she circled the globe, and many times she wandered off into Arabia on a quest for pure joy. "Can you picture," she cries, "the singular beauty of these moonlight departures! The frail Arab tents falling one by one . . . dark masses of the kneeling camels . . . shrouded figures . . ." These things lured Gertrude Bell into desert lands and kept her prowling there, writing books on archeology, writing others on the land & people which British officers later conned furiously as they set sail to fight the Near Eastern campaigns of the World...