Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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OSCAR WILDE DISCOVERS AMERICA- Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith- Harcourt, Brace ($4.50). In 1881 the inimitable musicomedies of Gilbert & Sullivan were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. Shrewd Producer D'Oyly Carte was planning to send the authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta, Patience, on a U. S. tour. It was also his notion to send ahead, as unconscious pressagent, the notorious original of Patience's esthete hero, Oscar Wilde. Carte put the scheme to Oscar as a lecture tour, a mission to preach beauty to the barbarians. Oscar bit. Authors Lewis...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison prize of $175 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, to Peter R. Viereck...
...House of Commons last month a rise in the tax on tea and another threepence to the pound of income tax, somebody must have peeked (TIME, May 4). In a last-minute rush British companies were swamped with orders for insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials and members of the Cabinet, and Britain takes care that Cabinet secrets shall not leak out accidentally. Far from the least important official in Whitehall...
...absorbing German East Africa. Here he found the Boer War tables exactly turned: this time it was Smuts who had the overwhelming numbers and the enemy who raided, retreated, but were never quite caught. By 1917 Smuts had the country, if not the enemy, in his pocket. Lloyd George invited Ex-Boer Smuts to join Britain's War Cabinet. There Biographer Millin closes her first instalment...
...addition to Forbes and Philip Brooks, Assistant Head Usher, those serving will be George Aldrich, Lloyd Booth, Jr., Arthur Brooks, Charles Cary, Leonard R. Dowse, Caleb Foote, Arthur D. Gardiner, Donald C. Goodrich, Laurence S. Johnson, Charles R. Miles, David Scull, Samuel P. Shaw, James L. Tyson, Roger Pierce...