Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Commander the Honorable Joseph Montague Kenworthy (heir to the ninth Baron Strabolgi), long a famed bulwark of Georgian Liberalism, grew so vexed at last with Mr. Lloyd George that he bolted without warning into the Laborite ranks of onetime (Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier Ramsay Macdonald...
...Plus Viscount Inchcape, Chairman, P. & O. Navigation Co. ; Henry Bell, Director Lloyd's Bank, Ltd. ; Sir Josiah Stamp, President, London Midland and Scottish Ry. ; Lionel Nathan de Rothschild of N. M. Rothschild & Sons; and 36 other equally potent financiers...
...carried the ball 60 yards. On the last down, with a minute to play, they had a foot to go. Signals were called; a desperate Navy team plunged into the scrimmage, and then a few sharp-eyed watchers saw the ball lying on the ground behind the scrum. Russel Lloyd of the Navy saw it too. He picked it up and ran 99 yards for a touchdown that proved the unsoundness of the adage about battles and the strong. Score: Navy, 13; Colgate...
...During the election Mr. Lloyd George issued what was called a "coupon" in a letter signed by himself urging all constituencies to vote against Liberals...
...Author Bennett's genius is to be found. It is a genius shy of formality, making hash of what is conventionally expected of it in the way of dramatic climax, contributing richly at moments when reader and characters are least expectant. Who will may hunt for traces of Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe in Andy Clyth and Sam Raingo but the wealth of this book lies in the subtle asides of the two fictitious figures and in the host of minor characters that surrounds them: Sam's dour man-of-all-work, Wrenkin; Andy's idolized, pious...