Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Addressing the 1917 Club, onetime Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald said in London last week: "The sympathy we Laborites feel isn't sycophancy at all. Those of us who have had the great pleasure of knowing the King personally, feel, at a moment like this, how extraordinarily well and absolutely impartially he has done his work...
...Prayers were constantly offered in Westminster Abbey not only for the King but for his doctors, nurses. A silent prayer by a group of British marines was impressively led, in London, by James Joseph Tunney...
Over a tawny glass of Spanish sherry a suave Semite faced London reporters in his flat last week. They knew that he had just made a bust of the largest British magazine enterprise of recent years, was regarded by some as a not inconsiderable ass. Twirling his glass of sherry, Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau alibied...
...just started a new play." With these words, the secretary of Edgar Wallace endeavored to discourage a telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig...
...London, plans were made for a chariot race, with six chariots, to be held early in 1929. In Pinehurst, N. C., a pig-race was held...