Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While automobiling, she skidded, broke an arm. But she had it put in splints, kept a concert engagement in London. Her name: Esther Dale, minor U. S. soprano...
When the citizens of U. S. cities are opening their country places and leaving the sticky streets, the rich citizens of London return to town for a spring of gayeties. The yearly exhibition of paintings at the Royal Academy opens the season. To the Academy's doors came last week lords and ladies, all the best people who live in London, eager to see the pictures and excited at the prospect of saying how-do-you-do to friends they had not seen since the autumn shooting in Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill, with three Anglo-Indian ladies, Painter...
...spoke these words in London, last week, holds the office of Prime Minister and bears the chief responsibility of governing the British Empire. He, Stanley Baldwin, by inheritance a sturdy countryman and industrial squire, continued his remarks to the British and Foreign Bible Society, as follows: "The Holy Bible is not only great but high explosive literature. It works in strange ways and no living man can tell or know how that book in its journeyings throughout the world has started an individual soul 10,000 different places into a new life, a new belief, a new conception...
...simple satisfactory cure for cancer of the larynx was reported by Sir St. Clair Thomson of London, president of the Royal Society of Medicine. The one essential is an early diagnosis; the operation is a laryngo-fissure, free from danger to voice or patient. Twenty five years' experience; 70 laryngo-fissures, resulted in 34 patients still alive, 32 who lived from 3 to 19 years after the operation without recurrence of the disease...
...Newmarket, the Prince of Wales waved his hat, and the crowd yelled as Scuttle, the King's three-year-old filly, worked up smoothly to pass Lord Dewar's Jurisdiction and win the Thousand Guineas Stakes, worth $5,000 to the winner. Next morning every paper in London printed a picture of the King with a broad smile on his face...