Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senatorial candidate the party looked far aloof and picked out no less a personage than droop-lidded, bespectacled Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, famed debunker of hands-across-the-sea, prosperous glassmaker of Corning, N. Y. Mr. Houghton, in London, accepted the nomination, started home...
European Reaction. Italian correspondents cabled from London to Rome that popular indignation was rising among Britons against the Baldwin Cabinet for having stupidly and wantonly baited President Calvin Coolidge...
...Norton Professorship has been held previously by Professor Gilbert Murray, Requis Professor of Greek at Oxford, world famous classicist and man of letters. He was followed in 1927-28 by Professor Eric R. D. Maciagan, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum of London...
Rubber. The British Stevenson Act controlling the production of rubber in the Orient expires Nov. 1. London despatches last week reported British and Dutch rubber plantation owners, who control the world's present output, conferring to form a private group to restrict rubber production, to create an artificial shortage, to shove prices...
...Author. Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis arrived in the U. S. last week, was greeted and dined by Manhattan writer-folk. He is of Welsh-Irish ancestry, lives in St. Germain outside Paris, sends a regular column of comment to the London Daily Mail. He is an authoritative medievalist, a tireless scholar who disclaims his labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans...