Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England a man was blown off London Bridge to drown in the Thames; and the statue of King Richard the Lion Hearted in Old Palace Yard, between the House of Lords and Westminster Abbey, lost His Majesty's sword which the wind snapped off at the hilt. Landsmen's deaths in Europe totaled 25. The South American cyclone slew 41 Argentines, injured 150, swept away 200,000 acres of crops...
This route besides being 12 miles shorter than the Providence, New London road, and eight miles less than by Worcester and Springfield, avoids the heavy through traffic on the two main routes, and runs through no large cities, such as Worcester or Providence. The road is well paved throughout, and has sufficiently easy curves to allow for fast traveling almost the whole...
Died. Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock, 79, British diplomat, onetime Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (1910-16); of heart disease; in London...
Gloria Swanson, interviewed for London's weekly Sketch, said: "Skyscrapers drain their inhabitants of colour, and gradually kill them. . . . Half of the women of America are sex-starved. Their husbands cease to be lovers almost as soon as they are married. . . . The sex-starvation of those women is the explanation of a hundred American phenomena which might otherwise puzzle you. It explains their strange crusades, their extraordinary cliques and fetiches. . . . When I grow old, I want to have an old brain as well as an old body...
Ignace Jan Paderewski celebrated, last week, in London, his 68th birthday. The United Press reported: "He is still holding audiences spellbound with his magic touch on the ivory keys...