Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Mr. Lloyd George was Premier (1916-22), numerous nouveau-peers were reputedly grateful to him, in cash and in advance, for whatever influence he may have exercised toward their creations. A high-minded statesman, Mr. Lloyd George naturally did not touch a penny or pound of this grateful gold. It was all voluntarily contributed to a curious "war chest" (campaign fund)-curious because Mr. Lloyd George retains to this day absolute control of more than ?1,000,000 in "almightie gold." Last week the little Welshman went shopping. None cried: Taffy was a Welshman Taffy was a thief...
...News. Only a sophomore, he does not regularly begin to write editorials until 1928. In his freshman year he captured a prize for an English essay and was one of the first members of his class to have poetry published in the Lit (undergraduate literary monthly). Another Pennsylvanian, one Lloyd H. Smith, was chosen for the highest office on the News-the chairmanship. Two smart young men from Dayton, Ohio, will guide the News' finances* in 1928: one Joseph E. Lowes Jr. and Robert Patterson Jr. who is the grandson of the late John H. Patterson, founder...
...lovable uncle who pets the cat and helps along the matrimony. When Broadway's last niece and nephew have chortled with childish glee over Tomany, it will probably be seized upon by all the stock companies throughout the land. Juvenile William Janney, Ingenue Peg Entwistle, Character Actors Lloyd Neal and Sidney Toler do well...
...courteous Prefect, M. Cameau, did not welcome Mr. Lloyd George under the mistaken impression that his power is on the rebound in England. It is not. But the British coal strike has disrupted the business of thousands of Britons who would formerly have been able to afford a winter vacation on the Riviera. They have not come to Cannes, Nice, "Mo te,"* or Mentone. Therefore the arrival of Mr. Lloyd George was an occasion for demonstrating that tourists are excessively welcome...
Valencia (Mae Murray). Dimitri Buchowetzki wrote the scenario, directed the production of a ham idyl that tells how Valencia of Barcelona, coy charmer, preferred a handsome sailor (Lloyd Hughes) to a smirking Governor (Roy D'Arcy). Clumsy framework pokes through a cheesecloth illusion...