Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true monument? . . . A picture comes to my mind of 1915?a crowded theatre in London, the sudden onslaught of bombs dropping from high up in the air, the rush of startled humanity to the open street, defenceless mortals running hither and thither, a woman screaming as she clutched to her breast the bloody body of a year-old baby and watched her baby's head pitch to the gutter...
Other Nobel Prizes awarded last week (by the Swedish Academy of Science) were three: 1) The 1928 Physics Prize (delayed) to Professor Owen Willans Richardson of King's College, London, for research into the movements of electrons emanating from hot bodies. His discovery of "Richardson's Law" gave other scientists important clues which led to the invention of the electron-actuated radio tube; 2) the Prize in Chemistry for 1929, to be divided between Dr. Arthur Harden of London University and Professor Hans von Euler-Chelpin of Upsala University, Sweden, for their joint research on the enzyme action...
Died. Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, 81, "Father of the House of Commons"; of septic rheumatism; in London. For 44 years he held the same seat in Parliament; for 62 years he was a journalist. He was a wholehearted defender of the late great Thomas Parnell, imprudent Irish statesman. He gave George Bernard Shaw his first job as a music critic. Three weeks ago, illness forced him to suspend the last of his publications, T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly (TIME...
...Majesty the Queen officially opened the annual exhibition of Queen Mary's London Needlework Guild last week. She beamed with pride at the principal exhibit: three soft woolen scarves knit by the busy fingers of Edward of Wales, her eldest, and three other scarves knit by her youngest son Prince George...
...London papers carried a business announcement last week of the formation of a new corporation, to be known as R. C. Sherriff Ltd. "to acquire the copyright of all and any existing and future literary, dramatic, and artistic works of R. C. Sherriff and to carry on the business of publishers and booksellers." Capital: $5,000. Directors: R. C. Sherriff, Mrs. Sherriff, E. Tudor Mash...