Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This destiny drew nigh when President Arthur Griffith of the Provisional Government found himself obliged to go to London in the summer of 1922, and appointed as his deputy in Dublin his warm personal friend William Thomas Cosgrave. On Aug. 12 President Griffith died. Ten days later the Government was further smitten by the assassination of its next most prominent leader, Michael Collins. With Griffith and Collins dead, the presidential toga descended upon Mr. Cosgrave, and he was formally elected President...
...waves, offal from the ship's wake. Sailors caught the albatross and aerodonetists studied its 17-ft. wingspread, its 4-ft., 25-lb. body. The albatross is the largest and strongest of seabirds, and scientists have tried to learn from it the method of its easy flight. At London last week Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British prize for inventiveness-declared that he had solved the problem. The secret lay in a depression of the albatross's back...
Reporters who were present at the arrival in Manhattan of Agnes Maude Royden, famed English evangelist, head of the London Guildhouse, were prepared to find a large woman with little conversation and a big smile. They found instead a small, mercurial, unbeautified, talkative lady, leaning on a chestnut stick. She answered their questions readily and with wit. The reporters then told Agnes Maude Royden that her prospective lectures in Boston and Chicago (sponsored by the Methodist Woman's Home Missionary Society) had been canceled because of rumors that she smoked cigarets and that she also favored companionate marriage...
...Babe Ruth of Spain arrived last week in London. Glossy hair curled close to his head; grace governed his slightest motion. To grace and slightest motions he owes his life a thousand times. He was Antonio Marquez, famed matador...
Queen, Victoria, granddaughter of Eng land's great Victoria, dislikes, in common with most Britishers, the bull fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant...