Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kate Evelyn Merrick, "The Queen of London Nightclub Keepers," who was sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Vexed were her sons-in-law, Baron de Clifford and the 13th Earl of Kinnoull...
When several days succeeded this assault without any demand for satisfaction being made by London upon Rome, the British Labor press bitterly recalled that at least three members of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet are notoriously Mussoliniphile...
...altitude, distance or endurance. He would go in a leisurely way from Croydon Airdrome, England, to Tokyo, and back, with sundry detours about the Mediterranean coast, in South Africa, and Mesopotamia-a matter of 40,000 miles in all. A broken wing and damaged engine forced him back to London, to wait for a new plane to be built. A luxurious traveler, in any case, Van Lear Black retreated from Khartum, Egypt, by special train...
Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer who said she swam the Strait of Gibraltar and the English Channel, tried to swim from Ireland to Scotland, 21%½ miles across the North Channel from Donaghadee to Port Patrick, but couldn't make...
...Thames. Harvard had the heaviest crew in 15 years. It was so heavy that the shell sat low in the water, so heavy, Bostonian, assured it was that young men with crimson feathers in their hats went through the observation trains at New London looking for bets and getting them. At 7 o'clock on a cloudy evening below Gales Ferry the two boats went away. Harvard was in front for the first 50 yards and never after that. Past the flags that marked the first mile, past the cluster of brick buildings at the submarine base, Yale moved...