Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amelia she was built in Scotland for King Carlos of Portugal when his son Manuel was a dashingly amorous prince. Many were the joyrides aboard her for the late, luscious actress Gaby Deslys (real name : Madeline Caire, 1884-1920). Manuel first espied Gaby in a disrobing act in a London music hall. Her baby-blue eyes went straight to his heart. He gowned her and be jeweled her from the Portuguese treasury, took her cruising on the Amelia, of which a notable appointment was a royal bed eight feet wide. Later Gaby danced in the Folies Bergeres, toured...
Journey's End. The theatre's ways are sometimes stranger than its plots. Some months ago the Kingston Rowing Club, a London suburban organization, found the Thames too cold for paddling and decided to put on a play by way of diversion. The club's personnel is wholly masculine, so something special had to be written for the occasion. The members turned to R. C. Sherriff, one of their number, who had had "experience" in the Surrey Amateur Dramatic Society...
...clock--Harvard-Yale crew races at New London...
Papers published weekday evenings: London, Ont., Free Press (national display) ; Detroit News (local display); Newark News (classified...
Famed among world department stores is Harrods, of London. Here shop Britain's King and Britain's Queen. Here come Her Majesty of Spain, Her Majesty of Belgium, many a Lord and many a Lady. Not quite so large as Selfridge's, Harrods admits no superior in quality, in clientele. Head of Harrods is Sir Woodman Burbidge, Bart., C.B.E., member of Royal Automobile, Royal Thames Yacht, Ranelagh clubs, Commandeur de l'Ordre de Leopold II of Belgium. Solemn, dignified, impeccable, Harrods last week published in the New York Times and the London Times a series...