Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major infection in George V's right lung, which almost caused his Death (TIME, Dec. 24) was announced last week to be entirely cured. Thereupon preparations were made to speed His Majesty by motor ambulance down to the Sussex seaside, 65 miles from London's fogs...
Propagandist Dittemore in 1919 quarreled with the trustees and other directors of the Boston Christian Science Church and was ousted. He went to London where he allied himself with Mrs. Annie C. Bill, self-styled "successor" to Mrs. Eddy and founder of a slightly insurgent Christian Science church known as the Parent Church. As everyone knows, the Boston church is always referred to as the Mother Church...
Every so often all who seek to peer into the English heart must scan the famed "Agony Column" (Want Ads) of the London Times. Last week in a single issue, on a single page, occurred the following revealing and significant ads, each smacking inimitably of Old England...
Smart U. S. Citizens hummed thus, last week, as they perused a private letter or two containing delicious details of the recent London marriage of England's cherubic Lord High Chancellor, Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. For one thing this extremely select wedding was attended by only 60 guests, the press and the public being barred. For another it took place in King Henry VII's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, the most gloriously Gothic and splendid shrine in England. Moreover the license was the first to be issued by the new Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
...Quintin Hogg greatly interested himself in welfare work among poor children, as did his prospective bride. Therefore, in words once uttered by the Present Lord High Chancellor: "We have a family legend that when father and mother went on their honeymoon they took with them 30 ragged boys from London. Mother spent most of her time fielding point while the boys were learning to play cricket...