Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old 21st Earl of Enroll, last of a line of Hereditary Lord High Constables of Scotland dating from 1315. He was roundly called a "blackguard" in London, last week, by Judge Sir Maurice Hill who assessed $15,000 damages against him as the corespondent in a successful divorce suit brought by Major Cyril S. R. Hill. "Mrs. Hill," said Judge Hill (no relation), "is a woman of the lowest character and a liar, perhaps due to the influence of the corespondent...
...astounding and unprecedented affront to the Holy Trinity was the laying of very heavy bets at leading London clubs during the two days of prayer and debate Odds of 7 to 4 favoring the Prayer Book narrowed rapidly to even money, and finally reached 5 to 4 against...
...organizer in 1903 of the Woman's Social & Political Union, leader of window smashing, Cabinet-heckling British Suffragists, often jailed, always released after hunger striking; two days after the House of Lords had approved the bill lowering the age limit for women voters from 31 to 21; in London...
This book, with its careful tracing of the Fortune's growth in each successive European crisis, is answer enough to the Waterloo legend. For years Europe believed that Nathan himself posted from Waterloo to London, took his accustomed place by a pillar on the Exchange and stood there, a picture of dejection and despair, while his agents bought what the world sold in frenzy, creating the Fortune in a single morning. Count Corti does not trouble to disprove the story; the Fortune was established long before Waterloo, and weathered the Napoleonic cyclone with its turbulent aftermath...
...Spain); Fuggers (Germany); Morgans (U. S.). Scholars may recall the tablets found on the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates telling of the Egibi firm, financiers B.C. Cosmopolitans will write notes of congratulation to living Rothschilds: Zoologist Lionel Walter, Bankers Anthony Gustay and Lionel Nathan, Soldier James A. (London); Physician-Yachtsman Henri (Paris...