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...England's only legless Member of Parliament, Major Jack Benn Brunei Cohen, Conservative, was returned from Liverpool without difficulty...
With its main line running from Montreal to Vancouver, with the extent of its entire transportation system, including its Atlantic and Pacific fleets, best indicated by the fact that it has a contract with the British Empire to carry mail from Liverpool to Yokohama, the Canadian Pacific might well advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry...
Male Brooke of Liverpool hinted darkly that "certain masculine women dare do all that may become a man. . . . Pupils of both sexes should be vigorously protected from the influence of persons of that type...
Half a million persons, transported by boats, motor cars, trains and airplanes, gathered last week around the Aintree racing course, shadowed by the murk of Liverpool. They watched 16 horses charge, as though in a Cossack attack, at the start of the Grand National Steeplechase. Horses stumbled. Horses straddled hedges. Horses fell into ditches. Ten reached the finish line at the end 856 yards. Leading them was one the name of which the half-million scarcely knew−a 100 to 1 shot, owned by a woman, ridden by a former sailor−Gregalach II, a chestnut gelding...
Died. Rev. Geoffrey Anketell ("Wood-bine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, 46, of London, famed & beloved Wartime chaplain, champion of workingmen, author (Food for the Fed-Up, The Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption...