Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Summer in March, 1842, in which Dickens says, "I miss Felton sadly. Half the pleasure of my world, as Charles Lamb says, has gone with him. I would give, I hardly know what I would not give, to have him at No 1 Devonshire Terrace, York gate, Regents Park, London; for I have a sincere affection...
...people in. Manhattan crowds were greater. Police were obliged to regulate the queues in other "key cities," notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid one shilling & sixpence (36c) to look at the models. They ordered 64,000 cars. In Manhattan a rascal took advantage of the local gullibility. He passed through the showroom throngs with an "order book" in his hand, promising delivery in three weeks upon a deposit of $25. When detectives approached...
...VANGUARD-Arnold Bennett- Doran ($2.50). The Story. Septimius Sutherland, middleaged, married, meticulous, is preparing to leave Naples for his native London. Packed, he rings for a waiter that he may sup in his hotel room. The bell is unanswered. Septimius descends to the lobby. There he finds the other guests of the hotel in a state of considerable confusion. The entire kitchen staff has gone on strike. Count Veruda (of unknown antecedents) has asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence...
...dealings with Lallers in a manner to make her husband acutely covetous of the option; that Mr. Sutherland has been abducted in the hope he will listen to his host's chequebook; that Miss Perkins is an innocent victim of circumstances. A garbled press dispatch is printed in London and meets the eye of Lady Furber. Lady Furber, being a woman of some decision, reaches Monte Carlo almost immediately, boards the yacht, and rings down the curtain a very few pages later...
...very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley, England- the "Hanbridge" of his familiar "Five Towns." With a limited education, he descended as a youth upon London and at 21 obtained a situation as a solicitor's clerk. Ten years later his first novel, A Man From the North, was published and, as he puts it, yielded profit sufficient for a new hat. A prodigious worker, he was soon evolving the printed word at a tremendous...