Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Excellency Alfonso, Marques de Merry del Val,* Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Chamberlain to King Alfonso of Spain, irate, took up his pen, wrote to the Sphere, London illustrated weekly, denied that Spain is decadent; answered an "arrant tissue of airy inventions" made previously in that periodical by one Mme. Bordeux on behalf of Vincente Blasco Ibanez, "notorious" Spanish novelist...
...that: "Spain is exactly as it has been for over three years, there is no outward change of any kind . . . it deteriorates." Penning beneath the sun at San Sebastian, popular Spanish watering place where he was spending a vacation from his diplomatic duties (he has been Ambassador in London since 1913), he wrote the following list of changes that had been effected since 1923, year of the Primo de Rivera revolution (TIME, Sept...
...More than 150 years ago a silly young Scotsman came to London. The two salient qualities of his mind were enthusiasm and an insatiable, embarrassing curiosity. Soon he came to worship at a popular shrine of which the idol was a fat, brilliant, untidy person, a rude and witty talker, a man of letters and a genius?Samuel Johnson. For many, this grotesque icon had lost his potency by the time he died. Not so for James Boswell, who bequeathed to the world two important things: one, The Life of Samuel Johnson, a monument to the curiosity of the author...
Died. Adrian Stokes, 40, famed London pathologist, "mental and physical giant," member of the Rockefeller Commission on yellow fever; at Lagos, West Africa; of yellow fever...
Married. Sean O'Casey, famed Irish playwright (Juno and the Paycock) ; to Eileen Carey, actress (Irish Players Co.) ; in London. Eccentric Mr. O'Casey wore a sweater during the ceremony, as he usually does to theatre first nights...