Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They listened to Harry Lawson Webster Lawson, Viscount Burnham, proprietor of the London Daily Telegraph, outlining the purpose of the first international conference of press experts...
Levine to London...
Died. John St. Loe Strachey, 67, writer, at London...
...tourist among foreign art centres. After a restful week at sea, he despatches the Louvre in two trips of three hours each and says: "I could have done it in 20 minutes with spikes on!" So too through Rome, Florence, Vienna, Munich, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp, London. At last, duty done he embarks for home and another week's rest at sea. In short, the only period of that leisure which is so necessary to enjoyable contemplation of art is spent at sea where, usually, there is none...
...buried in Kensal Green Cemetery -his tomb really being in St. Paul's Cathedral. His most recent letter appeared last month-on Beethoven. Meanwhile he has written on every subject, but chiefly "of graves, of worms and epitaphs." Searching for epistolary material he has become an expert on London and Paris burying grounds. Disappointments, which come to every man in public life, forced his retirement in 1903. He came back. In 1908 he retired again, publicly and with strong vows of abstinence. For three years he struggled heroically against the deadly fascination of the habit. The habit won. Then...