Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London the first word of clear council to cut through the babbling of the press came from Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, who was the first British High Commissioner to Irak (1920-23) and has treated personally with Ibn Saud...
Like all its inhabitants and all its swift and luminous companions, this earth must discover an eventual disaster. How the disaster will arrive, and when, is a matter for astronomers to ponder. Dr. James Hopwood Jeans, famed British astronomer, Secretary of the Royal Society, pondered; last week, in London, he spoke sadly of the dwindling universe. Said...
Thirty years ago, rural visitors to Manhattan were careful to see the Eden Musée which, like Madame Tussaud's* in London and the Grévin in Paris, was a gallery of wax statues. The collection was at that time situated on 23rd Street; of late years, its patronage lessened but not destroyed, the Eden Musée has been located on Coney Island...
Once an Eastern newspaper ran on its front page a box headed, "Who Robert Dollar Is." Under this caption were listed his formal titles and offices-President Dollar Steamship Company, Robert Dollar Company, Admiral Oriental Company, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, etc. etc., Director of the American International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar...
...London, that foggy, busy, chilly, Christian city, Daya Hewaviarne, manager of the Mahā Bodhi Society, announced that there would soon be built a temple to Buddha, the God who squats in the stuffy temples of Asia, to whom unhurried Buddhists babble their patient prayers. This first English temple to Buddha will make no effort to attract converts but will cater to present Buddhists now resident in London. The Buddhist priests will be dressed in robes of orange color. The temple will fly the Buddhist flag. This is an emblem in six hues, blue, red, yellow, white, orange...