Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME stands corrected. The Mercury Air Tour begins on July 14 when passengers sail from Manhattan on the S. S. Tuscania. At London they will take plane for Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Frankfort, Nuremberg, Munich, Zurich, Lucerne, Geneva, Paris-finally sailing for the U. S. on Aug. 25. Total cost of the tour will...
Frankness pushed to the brink of indiscretion characterized, last week, an address delivered in London by the Honorable Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, Mahara-jadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.** Said his Highness: "It is no use shutting our eyes to the fact that there is in India today a volume of opinion, small, perhaps, but yet not negligible, and which is growing every day not only in strength but intensely, which desires to get rid of British rule at all costs...
Finally the heir of the Shoguns retains a point of view at once smartly cosmopolitan and yet fundamentally Oriental. To a fellow tycoon of London he has dreamily and devastatingly remarked: "I have walked for an hour through your great city, this morning, without once seeing a flower in the hand of a human being...
...slim sword swung. The other's garb was black, but his eyes gleamed in candlelight. Sword-swinger was England's Charles I; the eyes gleamed in the head of Dr. William Harvey, no ordinary leech. Last week 100 chosen doctors from the world over gathered in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the royal leech's book* which first told the world that blood completes a circle through the body. The 100 doctors wore full dress and all their decorations; they were received at Buckingham Palace by England's George...
...than because they think their readers or listeners are weary of grim fancy tales about barbaric savageries, editors and pulpit-holders keep quiet about religious persecution of Mexico. Abroad, where Mexican absurdities have the attraction of the exotic, newssheets have given the Church v. State affair more advertising. The London Daily Express recently delegated a correspondent to investigate the situation and subsequently published an editorial saying...