Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancelleries of Europe experienced a thrill. What were these two statesmen up to? Enquiries were made and elicited from Spanish representatives in London and Madrid that the conversations between the two statesmen were no more than an exchange of official courtesies. Diplomats then put the whole matter down to an attempt on the part of Sir Austen to guide Spain back into the fold of the League of Nations. How else explain his friendliness for a nation that was not on good terms with the League...
Died. Edward Cecil Guinness, first Earl of Iveach, 80, owner of the Guiness brewery, "second wealthiest in Great Britain," ($100,000,000); in London...
...rocks on the South shore of England. Exclamatory, she thanked God she was conscious and then fell into stupor for two hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...
...undebatable necessity for uniform rules of international communications brought 400 representatives of 51 nations to Washington last week for an international radio telegraph conference. The only previous meeting of like purpose was at London in 1912, when only dots and dashes could be telegraphed without wires. Rules devised at that time still control wireless methods that have transmitted 1,000 words a minute and can transmit 2,000 a minute; that can be directed over a wave beam to specific receivers; that carry sounds and sights (wireless telephone, telephotography and, experimentally, television...
Soon he turned up in Paris with 20,000 francs, hired the Femina Theatre, and put on a vaudeville with Russian emigres, only three of whom were professional performers. The first attempt was creaky but a "moral success"; its possibilities were recognized by Charles Cochran, London producer. Under Mr. Cochran's management M. Balieff took the troupe to London. Shortly afterward "that stupid man" appeared, M. Balieff and his vaudeville opened in Manhattan and played 65 consecutive weeks; toured; became a U. S. institution...