Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they drifted back from bagging grouse in Scotland, London clubmen heard three new tales, current last week in four old clubs...
Nihon-Jin-Kwai, the 46-year-old club of the Japanese gentlemen of London, rustled with Oriental mirth, when a member returned from Cork, with a tale...
Soon Conquering Lion Tafari, who claims to be a descendant of Biblical King Solomon, was crowned, and a seven-day feast began. It was made all the merrier by the arrival of a cablegram from London...
When Crummies Played. This is the first of six plays, each to run four weeks, which will be produced by the Garrick Players during the season. This particular piece, first presented at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, by Sir Nigel Playfair, concerns the presentation by Mr. Vincent Crummies' Players, of a play which portrayed the temptations and disaster of a young apprentice in the City. A nice, tweedy audience enjoyed the "satirical picture of the players, adapted from [an episode in] Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby...
...abstruse writings are delectable to a few devotees; but to many they are meaningless, affected, smartly vulgar. Point Counter Point is a rich symphony of modern semi-intellectual London, done into polished prose that will be read slowly and with great relish-by the devotees...