Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chuckled wickedly when a crimson blush of shame suffused the countenance of the young Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Merrick, "Queen of London Night Club Keepers," has been sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Therefore the young Lord blushed and visibly perspired when the scathing Earl of Birkenhead remarked: "We hear of Peers denouncing drinking in the slums. But they seldom say a word about the evil caused by night clubs ... in connection with which the mother-in-law of two members of Your Lordship's House recently...
...Received their chief vicarious thrill of the week when David Lloyd George delivered before the Welsh Church Union in London a fiery and thoroughgoing reprimand to Christians...
Simultaneously the Count's attorneys in Vienna cabled that the Republican Courts of Austria have denied him the right to plead as a pauper or bankrupt, "on the grounds that Count Karolyi continues to reside in such expensive capitals as Paris, London and New York...
...Milton D. Crandall led naturally to many imitations. By the time of his most spectacular achievement last week, dance marathons were booming all over the U. S. Promoter Crandall himself intended to start others, under slightly more stringent rules, in Buffalo, Paterson, Scranton and Harrisburg, as well as in London, Berlin and Paris, with the assistance of "Cold Cash" Pyle. Of last week's endurance fiestas, the most successful, from a mercenary standpoint, was one in Chicago with which Mr. Crandall had been invited to associate but which his Madison Square engagement antedated. Another contemporary ball was being held...
Died. Mrs. Matilda Bedle Voorhees, not quite 105; of old age; in Asbury Park, N. J. Last spring Sir Charles Frederick Higham, famed London advertisingman awarded her, as the oldest teadrinker, $500, a gift from the India Tea Growers' Association...