Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Vannard, head boy of the Piccadilly Hotel, London, held a pudding in his arms as he sighted Manhattan's skyline from the deck of the Berengaria. It was consigned to Manhattan's new Hotel Piccadilly, which opened its doors last week. As credentials, Bellhop Vannard brought jealously guarded recipes of Piccadilly the Elder to Piccadilly the Younger. None of these, however, impressed immigration authorities, who rudely consigned bellhop, pudding, recipes, to Ellis Island, until Bellhop Vannard might submit proof he would not become a public charge...
Opposite as sunny Rome and slate-hued London are the anti-feminist theories of Dictator and Earl. The Roman by sheer ardor would explode the very notion that a "new" or "modern" woman can exist. The Londoner, icily accepting modern woman's existence, defines her function as competition with man, and brands her as a failure at her chosen game...
Therefore when "that bloody rabbit bill!" came up, last week, landed and rusticating Peers bustled up to London, to defend the right of rabbits to be reduced only by authentic sportsmen...
Smartly clad in cool fawn colored lounge suit, soft collared shirt and pastel tie, His Most Catholic Majesty, Alfonso XIII, sprucely returned to Spain last week, refreshed and tingling from a plunge into London's famed "Season...
...reward. The landing field is being hailed as 'the world's greatest air traffic center' and sufficient facts are presented to substantiate the boast. The total volume of traffic during the last few months has exceeded that of Tempelhofer Field, Berlin, and Croydon, near London, long holders of first and second place. . . . The airport site is now valued at half a million dollars more than it cost. Other cities . . . may well cheer Cleveland's achievement...