Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London Peppery Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, die-hard Conservative, exclaimed last week...
Jauntily, impishly, Edward of Wales appeared in evening dress with a red carnation, one night last week, thus setting London's impeccable chappies terribly agog. On the very next evening dozens of red carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
...week the last Pollier corporation was found to possess only a rented office, some hired furniture and not a sou in the bank. Friends of Professor Pollier sent bouquets and potted flowers to brighten his cell, declared that he is innocent, the mere dupe of a master swindler in London, one "Michael Neutski, a Russian...
...received the lighter-than-air trophy for his command of the Graf Zeppelin. His peer for 1927 was Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl of the U. S. S. Los Angeles. Lady Mary Bailey was the best woman flyer last year, Lady Mary Heath the next best. Each flew between London and Capetown, in opposite directions. "Best flyers" designated for various countries...
...took office, is now back to its normal $4.85) his movements arouse rumor, speculation. Financial sharps reported that he intended to visit Governor George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, surmised that the two Governors might discuss some method of preventing further movements of gold from London to New York with out resorting to raising the British bank rate...