Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 10, to ask if somebody, somewhere, can't unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the campaign began are getting somewhat antiquated?awfully so! The Carboniferous rock age story, the Boxer bullets, the £70 purse tossed in London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that all the magazines (including TIME)?that is, practically all?have dully and faithfully recorded them with scarcely the deviation of a comma...
...natural amphitheatre by the row-boat-ridden Serpentine, military bands were playing "Tipperary," "A Long, Long Trail," old songs of the War. The bands ceased. Into the amphitheatre marched massed choirs of London churches in cassock and cotta, at their head the sedate Bishop of Kensington, Rt. Rev. John Primatt Maud, solemn in billowing lawn sleeves, and pectoral cross. The Bishop took his place on the speakers' platform. A rocket curved up into the evening air. The Bishop of Kensington read the Lord's Prayer and a prayer for the King...
...British Empire represents a momentous and astounding political revolution accomplished in perfect amity round a table in London, which is still a source of mystification to our French friends...
...Said London's Star: "Frankly, we consider this election the dullest within memory of living...
Arriving at New London at 5.30 o'clock, the group will make the trip upstream in launches and take possession of the new living quarters, first building in the new group on the Thames to be completed. Plans as released yesterday call for no work-out tomorrow evening but the shells have already been shipped to the Nutmeg State quarters and will be ready for service Monday morning. For the time being only two Harvard launches will be in use. The "Black Pup" goes down today over the railroad and the "Patricia" is now making the journey via the water...