Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrong." When Mr. Doty reached Paris, last week, he said: "Once an officer asked me why I had joined the Foreign Legion, and I had to tell him that I didn't for the life of me know. He said I must have been crazy." At London correspondents discovered, last week, one Thomas William Whitman, an Englishman who had just arrived from Africa after successfully deserting from the French Foreign Legion. "We were punished by Legion officers," he said "for slight mistakes with lashes from huge rawhide whips...
...There can be no question as to the recent remarkable improvement in Russian internal conditions. . . . The public utilities in Moscow and Leningrad are in full and effective operation; the Moscow telephone service is as good as in any city in Europe, and rather better than the service in London or Paris...
...college sports which today arouse the greatest interest are undoubtedly football and rowing, and as during the last five years Harvard has won no football games and only one race at New London, there seems to have arisen a feeling that Harvard has for a long time more or less filled the role of athletic doormat for Yale teams in all forms of sport...
...Biddlecomb remarked that they were each equipped with six Rolls Royce engines of 360 H.P. Sleeping accommodations for 100 people will also be made. The plan is to run a regular service schedule between cities of the British Empire. In 1929 the first connections are to be established between London, India and Canada...
...lectures to be given by Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University for the current year, are to be continued during the second half year: the dates and subjects are as follows...