Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London Rubber Exchange in Mincing Lane (near the Tower of London) trading was quiet among disgruntled British rubber men. They established a price which hung close to 10¼ pence per pound, virtually the equivalent of the U. S. average price of 21 cents (since one pence equals two cents). Londoners, therefore, had ample time to ponder and explain why the Stevenson Plan will be scrapped...
...feature of the Prime Minister's latest declaration was that he was careful to utter it while both the London and New York rubber exchanges were in session. Thus he avoided a repetition of the scandal caused when he made his previous rubber announcement, last month, at an hour when the London exchange was closed but the Manhattan exchange was open. The result of the blunder was, of course, to enable U. S. brokers to make a heavy killing before the London exchange re-opened next...
...more recent elusively rich and moving Heloise and Abelard (1921). The trouble with these works is, however, that they appeal merely to a small group, select and perhaps elect. Not until last week did George Moore know the crude, earthy, tangible joy of having written a play which London proceeded to applaud, not merely from the lordly stalls but from the common, vociferating gallery...
...morning following the premiere almost every dramatic critic in London said nice things about aged George Moore's play, called it "brilliant," "shrewdly humorous," "enriched with prose of unusual beauty...
...swam the Strait of Gibraltar," said Miss Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer. She added that it took her twelve hours and three-quarters to get across. "What proof have you got, Miss Gleitz?" The swimmer showed a deposition signed by 60 Moroccans who said they saw her land or start or who went with her in little boats. Miss Gleitz said she knew one Englishman had seen her do it. He was a young boy. She described him, but he couldn't be found. Last year Miss Gleitz said she had swum the English Channel but refused...