Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rockefeller Foundation. The fever has already killed Dr. Adrian Stokes of Guy's Hospital, London. It must kill no more. Yet within a few months it did kill Dr. Noguchi and, a few days later, Dr. William A. Young, his associate. Last week as another associate, Dr. A. Maurice Wakeman, was sailing to Southampton, the fever killed him-the fourth. He was 31, "perhaps the outstanding graduate of the Yale School of Medicine." He was on his way to teach as assistant professor at Southampton...
...From London last week came word of another new opera in English, the libretto for which has been written by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, the music by Eugene Goossens. Their opera is called Judith and based on the apocryphal legend which has served many a poet and composer before them.* It will be performed at Covent Garden early this summer...
...week visit to study, like any European, "conditions." Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Great Britain's impeccable Home Secretary, last week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British authors in London, he said: "If we all work together we may be able to do something to relieve our country of the stigma which is undoubtedly on it at the present time because of the outpouring of so much filthy literature. Gentlemen and ladies,† I appeal to our better selves...
Died. Robert Bannatyne, Viscount Finlay of Nairn, 86, of London, famed lawyer, British member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague and of the International Court of Justice at Geneva; in London...
Died. Rev. Geoffrey Anketell ("Wood-bine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, 46, of London, famed & beloved Wartime chaplain, champion of workingmen, author (Food for the Fed-Up, The Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption...