Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I have not "taken an air trip over to Paris more than 50 times." Clearly the good lady fancies she would be betting on a sure thing, so I shall not inform her how many times I have "taken an air trip over to Paris"-from London...
Star Line (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926). That transaction involved 35 ships and other assets valued at ?7,000,000. Therefore Baron Kylsant merely smiled, last week, at London newshawks when they asked if he expected "trouble" from the Australian unions. Lord Kylsant expects, it was learned, to augment the Australian Commonwealth Line with a few of the smaller, older White Star ships in case the Australian labor leaders are very, very good. Should "trouble" actually arise, His Lordship has but to transfer his seven bought-at-a-bargain ships to service with one of the chief companies which he directs...
...fact that he has demonstrated the feasibility of transpolar flights. Meteorologists have long recorded the comparative absence of fogs and storms in the Arctic, and it is my firm conviction that the air routes of the future between such points as New York and Pekin, or Seattle and London, will be mapped over the Arctic...
...There are Ritz hotels at: London (2); Paris (1); Mentone (1); Evian (2); Rome (2); Papallo (1); Lake Maggiore (1); Naples (1); Lucerne (1); Buenos Aires (1); Montreal (1); New York (2); Atlantic City (1); Boston (1); Philadelphia...
George Bernard Shaw, author, vegetarian, made a horrid mistake in grammar while instructing people in the use of correct English on his first gramophone record for the Linguaphone Institute in London. He allowed his voice to say: "If what you hear is very disappointing and you feel instinctively 'that must be a horrid man,' you may be quite sure that the speed is wrong. Slow it down until you feel you are listening to an amiable old gentleman of 71 with a rather pleasant Irish voice, then that is me. All other people whom you hear at other...