Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd-Jones, good-humored captain of the Oxford debating team that is meeting 19 U. S. college teams here this autumn, continued: "Your American universities seem to be fresh and very invigorating, with a great deal of energy and spirit but students of the same age lack the maturity which is evident at an English university. They don't take their problems seriously and seldom think constructively until after graduation...
...Bernays, H. B. Lloyd-Jones, and H. J. Wedderburn will be the Oxford speakers, and Yale will be represented by Basil Davenport. H. T. Rowell, and C. H. Willard, of the Senior class...
...David Lloyd-George is worried, say the newspapers. A German moving picture, produced as propaganda for the German "naked culture" movement is about to be exhibited in England; and one of the most interesting parts of the film depicts Mr. Lloyd-George, soberly clad in tweed golfing togs, surrounded by an indecorus mob of nude athletes of both sexes. Just how he was inveigled into this pose is not stated. However, the famous statesman doesn't want constituents to connect him with unconventionality, and is doing his best to prevent the film from being shown in England...
...Lloyd-George has any thoughts of extending his political career into the future, no one can blame him. The British public might be amused or scandalized, either of which would be undesirable. Moreover, the former premier is faced with a serious problem in practical ethics. Dress, it seems, may be at the same time both moral and immoral, depending on whether the final public judgment agrees with convention or the German enthusiasts. If convention is right, Mr. Lloyd-George should not have been caught by the camera-man in such a Garden-of-Eden setting. But, if the naked culturists...
...clever Welshman. Not only his political career, but his moral foundations are slipping under him. And although he may save the first by keeping the film out of England, he cannot escape his conscience, which tells him constantly that, whoever is right, he has done wrong, How Mr. Lloyd-George must regret ever having gone to Germany...