Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Talk of fortifying Singapore started almost as soon as Britain gained control of the island, but it came to little until the breakdown of the Anglo-Japanese alliance in 1921. Almost simultaneously Prime Minister David Lloyd George announced that a major naval base would be built at Singapore, years of puttering about with surveyors and dredging machines followed, but not until 1928 did work really begin. Later Australia and New Zealand, the Federated Malay States and the swarthy Sultan of Johore, whose land lies just beyond Singapore island, became sufficiently alarmed at Japanese imperialism to come through with contributions. Work...
...hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord Stacy in Lloyd's of London. Immediately earmarked for stardom by Producer Darryl Zanuck, he has been undergoing a melodramatic course of sprouts (Slave Ship, Lancer Spy). International Settlement makes it clear that, even in the presence of seasoned troupers like prettily prognathous Dolores Del Rio, the sound stage is his whenever...
Stirring up the old theme of jingoism with an editorial on outlawing barbarism from warfare, Mr. Hearst recently raised his voice for a humanitarian principle that has recurrently been embraced by idealists and in turn refuted by the bestiality and blind emotion of man. David Lloyd George's and Winston Churchill's wholehearted endorsement of Mr. Hearst's suggestion would seem to illustrate the inability of modern man to realize that humane principles can never be applied...
...large bouquet on your excellent interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright. The job was done in his grammar, as he would put it, but what of that part about my being the "rich Mr. Johnson...
...process of crystallization since 1933, the MARS exhibition was actually one of the most effective presentations of modern architecture and planning ever made. As Frank Lloyd Wright has gone back to Thoreau for common sense on building (TIME, Jan. 17), MARS architects and engineers invoked the authority of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion...