Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Regular Fellow. Raymond Griffith is rapidly rising dangerously near the position of leading light comedian of the screen. In this description he must be carefully distinguished from Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Keaton, who are specialists rather in slapstick...
...Angeles, a sprinter, one Keith Lloyd, cousin of Harold Lloyd, crouched for his start, glancing nervously at his opponent. A pistol roared. Away went Lloyd. After him sprang his rival, a little Chevrolet* automobile. Lloyd, "champion sprinter of the University of Southern California," was three strides ahead before the spitting, snorting car had got into second. At the finish, man and car were neck and hub, timed at 10.3 in a dead-heat finish...
...Bellevue, found the prospect ty of the United States the country's feature most apparent to the foreigner. All three members of the team were unanimous in declaring the standard of living among all classes in this country to be higher than in Europe. "In England," Mr. Lloyd-Jones told the CRIMSON, "there has usually been begging in the larger cities. Not only is this so since the war; it has always been more or less the case. But here in America we have seen very little begging or selling of shoe-laces on the streets." "Briefly," supplemented...
...think that we are as enthusiastic about university athletics," remarked Mr. Lloyd-Jones, "and certainly the English newspapers don't give our teams the publicity that your teams get. Sporting events, both amateur and professional, are relegated to the back pages of British newspapers...
...Lloyd-Jones, who is acting as manager, is the Welsh member of the team, the other two hailing from Scotland and London. Mr. Lloyd-Jones prepared for Oxford at the University of London, and is the only visiting orator who did not attend a so-called "public" school. His college is Jesus, and he classes himself politically as a Liberal. Although Welshmen have the reputation of being eloquent, he is the first man from that part of Great Britain to preside over the Oxford Union...