Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quaint instance of Swedish cunning was observed in London, last week, when several large coffins were unloaded from a ship from Sweden. The coffins weighed but little more than packing cases of the same size, contained Swedish matches, were sold after the matches had been unpacked...
Ralph D. Blumenfeld sat down, flushed, last week at a banquet in London, when the above quoted chorus was chanted heartily by five British Cabinet ministers,* several earls, a great many editors, and Michael Arlen...
...quaint feature of the banquet was that, although Mr. Blumenfeld was born in the U. S., not one-tenth of 1% of his fellow countrymen have the slighest idea who he is. Londoners know that "Blum" has been editor of the Daily Express since 1904. He came to London from Manhattan in 1887 under orders from the late famed James Gordon Bennett to report Queen Victoria's first Jubilee. British tradition insists that "Blum has been in London ever since"; but that is an error. Actually he was Superintendent of the New York Herald in 1894; and not until...
Last week Arthur Judson, manager, announced six guest conductors of international reputation: Fritz Reiner (Cincinnati Symphony), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit Symphony), Willem Mengelberg (New York Philharmonic), Frederick Stock (Chicago Symphony), Sir Thomas Beecham (London Symphony), Pierre Monteux (onetime of the Boston Symphony...
...Westchester Biltmore Country Club in Rye, N. Y. Yale had outridden and out-scored Princeton, West Point, Pennsylvania Military College. Harvard, with a battered lineup, did not look hopefully toward the final game with Yale until a 198-pound oarsman, Forrester A. Clark, hastened down from New London where he had helped take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game-except for the mad riding...