Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd George as he read the comment on his speech, "to be taken seriously," "a new, vitalizing and challenging idea," perhaps he dreamed a little of homing, coming to the Government bench in the House?until his eye ran on "obsolete policy." "raises the spectre of agrarian strife," "a mere bundle of details...
...Half Way Girl. Explosion inspectors found the demise of the Mandalay one of the most shattering in screen annals. The producers bought an old packet, buried dynamite fore and aft and set her on fire. Just before the blowup, they contrived to have Doris Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes evade the leopard that had escaped in the riot, and catch the last life boat. She had been an underworld wench; he was falsely accused of murder. Mostly as usual, except for the disruption of the Mandalay...
...speech which called for peace and settlement and which committed the British Government to making an agreement with the South (later the Free State)- and, so rumor has it, told Premier George, who threatened resignation, that that was the speech he would utter whatever he (the Premier) might do. Lloyd George has never denied this story, perhaps from a desire not to oppose the King; but the chief truth of this bald version of the Kings action is that His Majesty played a leading part in the Irish settlement, as is well proved oy numerous tributes from eminent...
...players of Greenwich, Conn., when Jess Sweetser, onetime (1922) National Amateur Champion, qualified for the annual invitation tournament at the Greenwich Country Club, the lowest by so wide a cut that he seemed a certain winner. All that stood in his way was a blond stripling named Lawrence Lloyd, a Greenwich youth who had a putter. On every green, that putter flashed. Down went straight 15 footers, down went curly 10 footers, down went nasty 6 footers, down went Jess Sweetser, by a stroke on the last green. Golf, chortled the supporters of Lloyd, is a humbling game. Out sallied...
...Morris Sampter of Manhattan was at sea. She wanted to talk to her sister, a Mrs. Emil Berolzheimer. Mrs. Berolzheimer was also at sea, 150 miles away, on another German liner. Nevertheless, Mrs. Sampter marched into a telephone booth aboard her ship, the North German Lloyd Columbus, and was soon gabbling with her sister, on the Hamburg-American Deutschland, about fashions, family matters and a political dinner Mrs. B.'s brother-in-law had lately attended. For eight minutes they talked, exclaiming, interrupting each other, both talking at once. After she rang off, Mrs. Sampter paid the wireless operator...