Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to information to the Corriére della Sera from Cologne via London, it is confirmed that the barbaric conquerors of Antwerp punished the unfortunate Belgian priests for their heroic refusal to ring the church bells by hanging them as living clappers to the bells with their heads down...
...wins so often but so charmingly and wittily at bridge, too. Diplomatic Washington will remember the master negotiant who won so much for China at President Harding's Nine Power conference.* for the cablegram told Dr. Sze to cross the Atlantic and resume the post of Chinese Minister at London, which he held throughout the War. Of the six Sze offspring (4 girls), half are being educated on each side of the Atlantic. Thus, although Dr. and Mrs. Sze will leave Maimie at Wellesley, where she was coxswain and captain of the Freshman crew last spring (TIME, April 9), they...
...Indiscreet Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, His Majesty's Home Secretary (TIME, Jan. 14). now vacationing on the French Riviera, said last week that he thought Their Majesties might soon remove from bleak London to sunny Menton, a few miles from Monte Carlo...
Scarcely any one in England would think of calling Mrs. Stanley Baldwin "Lucy,"' except of course her husband, the Prime Minister. Even the smart friends of Miss Betty Baldwin, including some of London's most notorious titled set, would never refer to a "church" in her mother's presence as a "Godbox."* Therefore it was quite "in character" for Mrs. Baldwin to go, last week, to a quite old-fashioned little church bazaar...
William Francis Hare, Viscount Ennismore, son and heir of the fourth Earl of Listowel has often puzzled his friends. Recently he surprised most, shocked many, when he gave an exhibition in London of his own neat and delicately stitched embroideries. Last week he founded Neighbors...