Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fare would not eliminate the almost homicidal crushes on the I. R. T. at rush hours. Why, wondered economists, would it not be to the city's and the I. R. T.'s mutual advantage to allow more than one fare, keeping a 5-cent minimum? The London Underground and the Paris Metro and Nord-Sud sell tickets of various classes. Why not have 10-cent or even 25-cent turnstiles for thousands of riders who would pay to escape the cattle-like stampede? The extra revenue would provide extra cars to accommodate the 5-centers...
...himself be outsmarted by Dr. Stresemann in securing the goodwill of the U. S. Sir Austen, obviously embarrassed, soon made an unfortunate public allusion at Birmingham to the "unwisdom of sacrificing old friends to gain new ones." Thereupon he was heavily taken to task by the Olympian London Times, which usually supports him but declared last week: "The French position is specifically and narrowly French. . . . British opinion in this country and the Dominions is very strongly in favor of ... the American proposal. ... It would be an advantage if that [fact] could be stated . . . formally and emphatically ... by the Foreign Secretary...
Through the mist and murk of a London night two bobbies assigned to patrol Hyde Park tiptoed up to within four yards of a gentleman and a young woman who were together upon two park chairs. The hour, as the bobbies later testified, was precisely 9:45. The persons on the chairs were, in the opinion of the constables, "behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency." Therefore strong hands were laid upon the young woman, who remained passive, and upon the gentleman, who roared: "Hands off! I'm not the usual riffraff...
...charming and well-bred a person as Daphne there was much to despise. For Daisy was not only ashamed of her lower middle class family in East Sheen, but pretended they lived abroad, well away from inquisitive friends. Her profession too-writing heart-to-heart patter for London Sunday supplements-seemed to her so painfully vulgar that she concealed it under the name of Marjorie Wynne. Not that it wasn't good of its kind ("Career or Babies for the Post-War Girl?"), and in great demand for its popular appeal, but that was just exactly why Daisy...
Author Macaulay, brought up in Italy, by the sea, now lives and writes in London. Somewhat annoyed that her publishers required further publicity matter than her creditable list of novels (Potterism, Told By An Idiot, Orphan Island) she answered in regard to hobbies: "I don't keep rabbits or collect stamps in these days...