Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides a large collection of true paintings the Law School has obtained a group of over 200 cartoons of various British legal lights. They range in importance from the police court magistrate of London, to the Lord Chief Justice, and Prime Minister Disraeli, but all are shown in positions neither dignified nor flattering. They were drawn for "Vanity Fair" by two cartoonists who called themselves "Ape" and "Spy." Proudly looking down on this "rogue's gallery" are oil portraits of Daniel Webster, of the class of 1804, John Marshall, Rufus Choate, of the class of 1845, and James Bradley Thayer...
...London famed H. Gordon Selfridge, rich U. S. proprietor of England's first and greatest department store, said, addressing London's Master Printers' Association: "I shall never be quite happy until I have a really good newspaper in London. If any one of you has a good newspaper you want to sell at a very low price, I shall be pleased to take it over or. talk the matter over with...
...London a King's Bench decision was handed down restraining the Press from subscriptions getting by what is known as a "Football Competition...
...that time, thousands of Confederate bonds were daily bought and sold on the London stock exchange. Mouth watering, Fisk conceived the shrewd scheme of hiring a fast clipper to start for England the moment Lee surrendered, sell hand over fist until official news of the defeat, then buy and make delivery when the bonds were practically worthless. Over the 50-mile gap in the telegraph line to Halifax gangs of linemen strung a temporary wire; and in thirteen days-so well had he calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before...
...There they won recognition and financial backing. That is why, when Orville Wright believed that the Smithsonian Institution at Washington was erroneously giving the late Samuel Pierpont Langley credit for the first man-carrying airplane, he sent his Kitty Hawk plane to the Science Museum' at South Kensington, London, for preservation...