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Word: londoners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking at London, last week, the rotund but potent 62-year-old Earl of Derby disparaged this idea before a physical-culturist audience, finally exclaiming: "I, ladies and gentlemen, have not touched my toes for 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Postulate Disproved | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...benefit of those who do not remember, it may be recounted that Shaw assembled four of the finest physicians in London and made three of them ridiculous in the acid comments of the fourth, snow-haired dean of the profession. Woven through the ridicule is the dilemma. Shall the great doctor who has discovered a quick cure for tuberculosis apply it to a worthy, unsuccessful fellow man-of-medicine, or to a blackguard artist who can paint great pictures. He cannot cure both; his perplexity is enhanced by his passion for the artist's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

White Star Plans. However, as Mr. Bruce said this, the White Star Line's London office announced plans for a new liner approximately 1,000 feet long, bigger than its Majestic and swifter than the Cunard Mauretania. As soon as one of the slips at Queen's Island, Belfast, is vacant, the new ship's keel will be laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Travel Notes | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Cunard Plans. The Cunard Line is also planning a thousand-foot ship for transatlantic service, to be built on the Clyde or the Tyne. Company officials held a secret meeting in London last week. Their general passenger manager in the U. S., Harold P. Borer, attended. Said he: "It should be possible to fill ships of any size which would be placed on the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Travel Notes | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...London an American paid for $500 a reservation. He is the first prospective passenger for the British trans-Atlantic service, "proposed for April." The ships will hold 100; have eating, drinking, sleeping, even dancing facilities. They will make Manhattan and London 48 hour neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics Notes, Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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