Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nature: In appearance, Mr. Howells was chubbily Lloyd Georgian; carefully barbered, however, smooth-browed and with an honest mouth. In the autobiographical works, Mr. Firkins finds that he was athletic only in boyhood, a nonsmoker, fearful of dogs yet fond of them, as fond of birds as Spencer and Stevenson, partial to public spectacles, keen of nose, "respectful" toward dress; that "he observed the habit while he deplored the custom" of giving tips; that his visits to churches "commonly involved the Baedeker rather than the Prayerbook. . . . He distrusted Eddyism [Christian Science] . . . recoiled from what seemed to him tasteless and tawdry...
Distinction comes to her naturally, not only in her own person but as a daughter and a wife. For her father was William Lloyd Garrison, the famed abolitionist, who at 22 was editing the first prohibition paper in the country (the National Philanthropist), who at 24 (in 1829) was joint editor of The Genius of Universal Emancipation, published weekly in Baltimore. He went to prison for failure to pay a fine of $50 for libel when he had referred to a ship carrying a cargo of slaves from Baltimore to New Orleans as engaged in "domestic piracy." Poet Whittier appealed...
...Post failed to mention that Ambassador and Mrs. Kellogg were among the guests. Of the Earl of Balfour's presence it took cognizance thus: "The veteran apostle of philosophic doubt was there?doubting, we feel sure, no longer." Lloyd George's presence seemed to the Post appropriate, in that Mr. Lloyd George was "an honored employe of the Hearst press...
...Bohlen, R. B. Burnett, Blake Cabot, C. D. Coady, L. F. Daley, W. P. Ellison, R. T. Flood, C. B. Gross, Nathaniel Hamlen, R. S. Scott, Lloyd Vander Horst, C. I. Wylde, Isadore Zarakov, G. P. Sturgis, manager, Howard Slade assistant manager...
...Wickham Steed. ... No One Else Ever Heard of It." While they awaited the book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations, Mr. Steed's was a most excellent one for veracity; that, of all times, the present ? with Wilson dead, Lloyd George obscured...