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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...retiring Commissioner, Sir William Thomas Francis Horwood, who offers "age" as his excuse for resigning, is 59. Lord Byng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fancies into Facts | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Despatches reported last week that the Prince of Wales allowed his finger prints to be taken on the occasion of his visit to Scotland Yard. Sir William Horwood, the Commissioner, was quoted: "If I may say so, the lines upon your Royal Highness' thumbs present a quite unusual formation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Unconscious Jest | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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