Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroes donned crimson and white robes of chivalry, last week, and assembled as the Most Noble Order of the Bath. The order is primarily militant. Civilians aspire to the Garter, but seldom to the Bath. Therefore last week it was a military pageant which moved with clanking swords through London, entered famed Westminster Abbey, traversed the long nave, and stamped with martial tread into the majestic, vaulted Chapel of Henry...
...Berrys who won, with their lower bid, by promising to carry on the granite founded traditions of The Aberdeen Journal, whereas Aberdonians feared that Viscount Rothermere, though his bid was the higher, would debase the Journal to the level of his blatant London Daily Mail. As everyone knows Lord Rothermere has formed a $15,000,000 holding company to compete with the Berrys in buying up British provincial newspapers. On another day, last week, this rivalry flamed up again at Derby, where the Berrys bought the Daily Express and Lord Rothermere the Daily Telegraph. London newspapers of these potent rivals...
...TIME, March 12, 19), which depicts the shooting of Nurse Cavell in Belgium with realistic Teutonico furore. When the film was shown at Brussels it was received with tranquil approval. In England the Baldwin Cabinet made every effort to have Dawn suppressed; but it was finally approved by the London municipal authorities and shown, after emasculating cuts, without untoward incident...
Subway Tickets. Waiting for change at a subway ticket wicket has been done away with in parts of London. An efficient slot machine takes the money, makes the change, prints, dates, issues the ticket; all in exactly one second. Unscrupulous voyagers who feed it counterfeit coins are certain of detection. Electricity tests the. piece for conductivity as it drops in. If it is found wanting, it is angrily spat forth...
...from the U. S. by the Department of State because she was full of "moral turpitude," once wrote a novel called The Woman Tempted. It has now come to the U. S. in the form of a British film. It is not immoral, though it depicts a very bad London society woman who steals a friend's fiance and drives him to suicide. In the end, justice is done...