Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing seems more cruel than the death of a wise and able man at a time when his powers are most flourishing and his advice most needed. The death from pneumonia of Professor Allyn Abbott Young in London on Wednesday is a loss which will be felt by the colleagues with whom he worked, both here and abroad, the pupils whom he had taught, and the University and the nation which he had served...
...fact that the entire production was made in the autumn, many attractive scenes such as the crews rowing on the Charles, the New London races, the Yale baseball game, and Commencement Day have been omitted, but it is hoped that these additions may be made before another year...
Caricaturist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, born in London 54 years ago, deserted art school for "literary work." His genius is for turning platitudes into epigrams and vice versa; his reputation, for making paradoxes. Indolent, jovial, fat, he has been described as a "hansom cabful"; and the story runs that one day in a tram he rose, offered his seat to three women...
That incomparably prolific and reliable writer of detective stories, J. F. Fletcher, publishes four stories simultaneously, all highly readable: The Ransom for London (Dial, $2) is scientific crockery on the grand scale?death comes mysteriously to the Prime Minister's prize bulls and to a party of 19 toffs, before the Deadly Three are scotched without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention...
...bank will pass National City and Chase National, will stand as largest U. S. bank, as first U. S. bank with assets approximating two billions. From the standpoint of capital and surplus the merger-bank will be also world's largest. From the standpoint of deposits and total assets, London's Midland Bank Limited is larger ?almost a two-and-a-half-billion dollar bank. Other British banks with larger deposits are Lloyd's and Barclay's and approximately equal in deposits are Westminster and National Provincial...