Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also of publicity loving individuals who like to dance a marathon from Worcester to Boston, Mass, and also . . . what about those others who, perhaps on the spur of the moment endeavour to spend the rest of their lives on the top of a flagpole. DANIEL J. NEAL Late of London, England Boston, Mass...
Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, British hurdler (Cambridge University), resigned from the Grenadier Guards to enter business in The City (London's Wall Street...
Paul Robeson, Negro actor (Emperor Jones, Black Boy, Showboat [in London]), last week signed with Maurice Browne, producer (Journey's End), to play the Moor in Othello. After performances in London next spring, Producer Browne plans to give Othello in the U. S. and Canada, has secured an option on Negro Robeson's appearance in the same role in cinema...
...made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than $1 per hair for what he has left...
...cure measles, but to the Detroit city fathers it means a saving of several million dollars. The city will collect the garbage, deliver it to the Ford reduction plant; all further costs will come out of the Ford pocket. A Ford-operated garbage-to-grease plant has effectively reduced London's garbage disposal costs...