Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong tide of super-taxation in the British Isles has long been breaking up the great estates and driving limpet peers to incorporate them selves. Last week the Earl of Derby (Darbi) sold large property holdings in Liverpool and nearby Bootle and in Kirkdale and Walton to one Philip E. Hill, London financier, for about $8,500,000. The Earl, however, still retains his famed country seat at Knowlsey, also nearby...
...Howard Heath Rapp '26, of Broomall, Pa.; Harry Shulsky, New York University '26, of New York; Bernard Soman '26, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jule Elias Stocker '26, of Detroit, Mich.; John Joseph Verdon, Holy Cross '26, of Hoboken, N. J. and William Henry Vochy, Jr., Princeton '26, of East Liverpool, Ohio...
Last week Mr. Selfridge spoke before students of the Liverpool University School of Architecture. Said he: "I will tell you the order of the five most beautiful things in creation: A beautiful woman first, then a beautiful child, a beautiful flower, a beautiful sunset, a beautiful edifice...
...earth and the sun at a point close enough to the earth, so that the sun was blotted from the sight of earth-dwellers. The moon's shadow, an oval patch of twilight some 40 miles wide, fell first on the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland, sweeping across Liverpool and Hartlepool to the North Sea, across Scandinavia and Siberia, disappearing over the Aleutian Islands off Alaska...
...background and general atmosphere is again London. The main jumble of the plot starts before the war in Vardon's house at Liverpool. We are introduced to his ten year old daughter Venetia, to Peter Serle, a young man, but already a member of Parliament, and to a uselessly rich Jew. Then we jump to London during the war. Venetia has just come home from school, and Serle, always close to her, is her devoted friend. At a houseparty she meets Saville, a young author, and dislikes him intensely. Six years later, Ysabel, American musical comedy star, enters the book...