Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the bulletins that were issued last week from Craigwell House, Bognor, where the King-Emperor rests after his illness, was one over the signatures of Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir Stanley Hewett, His Majesty's Chief Physicians. Innocent sounding enough, it was secretly carried to London, and submitted to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Prince of Wales before being published...
...best time in the King's day," said an unofficial despatch from London, "is usually just after six in the evening. In the best periods the King realizes his weakness and insists on being treated as an extreme invalid. In his other moods, however, he does not recognize the situation and expects to be treated as a well person, which increases the difficulties of the doctors and nurses...
With the recent disbandment of the British Fascists, Captain Barker, penniless, sent Mrs. Barker home to her druggist father, exchanged her military uniform for a sleek cutaway, and was employed early last week to welcome guests with unctuous politeness by London's irreproachable Regent's Palace Hotel...
Unable to pay a judgment assessed by a London court, last week, Reception Clerk Barker submitted quietly to arrest for "contempt of court," and was driven in a patrol wagon to Brixton Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females. Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain...
...newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's Daily Mail, presently presented its 2,000,000 readers with My Own Story by "Captain Barker." Excerpts...