Word: londoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...London has invented a name for men of peculiarly detached type of mind who can continue their own business regardless of the war conditions which exist in England today. They are called "Tommy Browns.' The "Daily Mirror" explains the term. The original "Tommy Brown" was Sir Thomas Brown, who at the time of the English civil war took absolutely no notice of the conflict and continued his studies as though no war were in progress. His "Religio Medici" and "Uvu Burial," two master-pieces in English Literature were produced at this time...
...squad, accompanied by their coaches and managers, will leave Cambridge at 2.15 o'clock this afternoon, spending the night at the Hotel Mohican in New London. Tomorrow morning they will go to New Haven, arriving about noon. The game is called at 2.30 o'clock, after which the squad will have dinner at the Taft, and spend the evening at the theatre. The first team lined up in the following order yesterday: Harvey, 1.e.; Davis, 1.t.; Snow, 1.g.; Wiggin, c.; Burr, r.g.; Mackie, r.t.; White, r.e.; Taylor, q.b.; Thacher, 1.h.b.; Enwright, f.b.; Robinson, r.h.b...
Phillips B. Robinson arrived in London from New York on August 20, and soon afterwards was attached to the staff of the American embassy as a volunteer in preparing passports. He continued this work until October, when he joined the British Red Cross Corps as volunteer ambulance chauffeur for service in France, where he is at present probably near Amiens...
...football management has announced that the University football team will spend the night preceding the Yale game at New London, Conn. In all probability the team will journey to New Haven on Thursday, try out the conditions existing in the new Bowl, and then depart for New London. Practice the next day will be held on the grounds of the New London baseball club, the squad returning to New Haven on the morning of the game in a special train. As New London is very quiet, the management has chosen it as the most acceptable place for the headquarters...
During the week beginning next Monday, Dr. Thomas Lewis, assistant physician and lecturer on Cardiac Pathology in the University College Hospital of London, and an editor of "Heart," an important medical journal, will come to Boston as visiting physician, pro tem., at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and visiting lecturer in Medicine at the University. This practice was inaugurated last year when Dr. William S. Thayer, of Johns Hopkins, spent a week here as visiting physician. The local scheme of instruction thus acquires the services of distinguished men who give various student exercises and afford the Medical School...