Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FUNNY The Circus (Charles Chaplin), The Gaucho (Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez), A Girl in Every Port (Louise Brooks), Speedy (Harold Lloyd...
...produced by Mrs. Andrew Koger of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and her husband, Andrew Koger, carpenter. They have four sets of twins healthy and growing, named, according to the unfortunate habit of emphasizing the abnormality of twinship by imposing artificial likenesses, Clyde, Claude, Addie, Abbie, Floyd, Lloyd, Jean and Jeannette...
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...
...rightful majority claim of its leader, Nahass Pasha, to be called to the Prime Ministry. Such a call would have come as a matter of course but for British dominance in Egypt. It finally came, last week, only after the British High Commissioner to Egypt, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, had convinced himself that force would be needed to impose another puppet Prime Minister upon Egypt and that for the moment force is inopportune...
...confident that no effective steps to enforce them could be taken by fledgling Prime Minister Nahass. True he is the successor of the late famed Zaghlul Pasha who forged and created the Wafd; but Nahass Pasha, wafded into power, is scarcely a match for lean-limbed, steely-eyed Baron Lloyd...