Word: londoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Until 1882 when the London Society for Psychical Research was organized for the investigation of alleged telepathy, visions and apparitions, clairvoyance, crystal gazing, automatic writing, predictions of the future, and in fact all kinds of occult phenomena, evidence on these subjects was either accepted with superstitious credulity or scornfully denied as phantasms of the ignorant imagination. Realizing that past evidence had been largely vitiated by fraud, defects of observation, prejudice, lack of technical knowledge and lapses of memory, the London Society has made the most critical and painstaking examination of every unusual case that has come before it, with...
According to a cable from London received at Brockville, Ont., Allan Shortt '17, who was attached to the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion was officially announced as missing after an engagement on the French front. Shortt, who is lieutenant, is thought to be a prisoner of war. He is a nephew of the late Seth Low, LL.D., '90, former mayor-of New York, and was a member of the Class of 1917 when he went to Brockville to enlist...
...drawn recently by the Honorable J. W. Fortescue, who, with Mr. Julius Corbett, has been appointed to write the official history of the war, illustrates very forcibly the change that has come over history and history-making in the last hundred years or so. Mr. Fortescue was speaking in London, and he referred to the way they were handicapped by the fact that they only knew one side of affairs. Writing a history of the war before the war was over, he said, when they did not know what the issue would be; when they knew nothing of the other...
...silly channel steamer with it unreal label of noise, the London house with its utterly unEnglish inhabitants are not made real because in a very reasense they are merely the stage upon which Mr. Powers reels in his drunkenness. We do not complain that this is so. The American farce is an genre as another and we enjoy Mr. Powers...
...exhibits the British "tank" which has been so successful on the western front against the Germans, will attract the greatest attention. Next is interest is the war trench, made under the supervision of Captain Norman Charles Thwaites, V.C., Fourth London Dragoon Guards. Captain Thwaites has been especially detailed by the British government to supervise the British exhibits at the different bazaars in this country...