Word: london
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Eight oarsmen and a coxswain from the University of California smashed the Olympic record for 2,000 metres in the semifinals, then pulled a little more than half a length ahead of the shell of the Thames Rowing Club (London) to win the most important rowing event of the IXth Olympiad. Followed a U.S. victory in the majority of the water events, with Martha Norelius, Albina Ossipowitch, Helen Meany, George Kojac, Pete Desjardines, John Weissmuller as kingpins...
Died. Sir James Agg-Gardner, 82, oldest member of the British House of Commons, last of Disraeli's M. P. contemporaries, famed for his 54 years of silence in the House (broken by only two speeches) ; of heart disease; in London. As head of the House catering department, he supervised daily "tea on the terrace," was affably known as "Minister of the Interior...
Lazy skeptics and whining peg-legs, when they read this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...
...support, Sir Robert Peel was honored at death for sacrificing popular favor and party goodwill to the welfare of the nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal law; development of a new liberal Conservative party out of the reactionary Tories; and finally, drastic Free Trade measures which initiated the vast expansion of British trade...