Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tunbridge Wells, England, one A. G. Luck last August bet Lloyd's (famed insurers) $150 against $5,000 that his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Dumbreck, would have "two or more children early in 1927." Having found few twins or triplets in the Luck and Dumbreck family trees, Lloyd's waited confidently. Last week Mrs. Dumbreck gave birth to twins; Lucky Luck collected $55000. Many an-other wife urged her husband to bet on her; pius preachermen flayed sinners who gambled on motherhood...
...Brother (Harold Lloyd). Great dark houses crashed and rocked with laughter last week. Funnyman Lloyd is loose again. Before permitting himself to be released Mr. Lloyd always examines his gag staff* to be sure no drop of marrow lingers in their funny-bones. He asks the continuity men if they have achieved the highest possible pitch of acceleration. The result is houses that crash and rock. Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts...
...cinema what a "smart-crack" is to theatre?an action or series of actions (instead of words) conceived and perfected as a distinct unit to be woven into sequence with other "gags," as close together as may be. Funnyman Lloyd, gag connoisseur, exhausted the combined efforts of three expert gagsters in making The Kid Brother...
Instead, the Administrative Committee party received him with respect. An hour later they voted 16 to 12 to accept terms from Mr. Lloyd George as follows: 1) resignation of all members of the Organizing Committee not favored by him; 2) a pledge by Mr. Lloyd George to contribute the income of his "war chest" to be used "free from any conditions" to finance the Liberal campaign at the next parliamentary elections. That meant Mr. Lloyd George had bought the Liberal party...
...Viscount Grey of Fallodon, announced next day that they had formed "the Liberal Council," really a new party with a separate headquarters and pledged to support the policies of Lord Oxford and Asquith who resigned (TIME, Oct. 25) as Leader of the Liberal party on account of disagreements with Lloyd George...