Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince George returned to London from Bermuda and Manhattan, last week; and H. R. H. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, hove home from South Africa...
Chuckles were heard in tens of thousands of British homes when the famed London weekly Sketch arrived and was ruffled over to a peculiarly English full page cartoon in decorous pastel colors...
...sympathetically the mutual loneliness of two women; and told frankly how they appeased it in the classic fashion set by Ancient Grecian maidens on the historic Isle of Lesbos. This same theme was hymned by Sappho, universally esteemed by classicists as the greatest poetess who ever lived. To a London policeman or magistrate, however, the very words "Lesbianism" or "Sapphism" are unmentionable, vile...
Died. John Devlin, 82, "Diamond Man" (50 years or more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...
...From London, John Steele cabled the Chicago Tribune that Mr. Tunney was suffering from delusions of persecution, that he turned on a young man in the Strand, shook his cane, and said: "Look here, young man, if you are following me I am just about likely to hit you over the head with this stick...