Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During their stay in Boston, the Oxford debaters, H. J. S. Wedderburn, H. V. Lloyd-Jones, and R. H. Bernays, will be tendered a reception by the Harvard Club of Boston. The English colony in Boston is also making plans to entertain the visitors, and they will attend in force the debate in Symphony Hall...
...wittiest man in the House of Commons" (TIME, April 7, 1924). His interjections have become bywords: "Lloyd George may be the wizard of Wales, but he's the blizzard of Britain;" "The man who'll come out on strike for fun will go to hell for pleasure...
...full name of this 0. M. S. was announced as "The Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies"; and several peers, among them Admiral Lord Jellicoe, Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, Viscount Falkland, Major General Lord Scarbrough, Lord. Ranfurly, Admiral Sir Alexander Duff, Lieut.-General Sir Francis Lloyd, stood sponsor for what would seem to be a most ambitious attempt at organizing the country to protect and feed itself, in case of a national emergency...
...Freshman. The advent of Harold Lloyd is always a major matter in the movies. His latest scenario goes back to the ever reliable college campus, and attempts to make merry with the ever reliable boob who becomes the college hero. Possibly Mr. Lloyd was too well aware of the reliability of his material. He did not seem to strive as usual for novelty. It would be madness to say that The Freshman is not funny. Mr. Lloyd could be funny playing an undisturbed mummy. Simply this: The Freshman is not so funny as earlier of the comedian's adventures...
Incoming. Into New York harbor sailed the 1925 detachment of Oxford debaters: R. H. Bernays, an Englishman; H. J. S. Wedderburn, a Scot; H. V. Lloyd-Jones, a Welshman. Each of the three was president of the Oxford Union (debating society) for a term last year. Each is already active in British politics. At Harvard and Princeton they will maintain that the growth and activities of the Socialist movement are detrimental to social progress." At Colgate, Bates and the University of Pennsylvania, they will denounce Prohibition. Elsewhere their proposition will be in regard to the World Court and recognition...