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Word: londoners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first two editions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", printed in 1865 and 1866 in London, are on exhibition this week in the Widener Memorial Room. In addition, there are manuscripts and letters of Lewis Carroll from the Harcourt Amory Collection recently given to Harvard College Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARROLL MANUSCRIPTS AND FIRST EDITIONS IN WIDENER | 4/12/1927 | See Source »

...Mudge '27, manager of the team. The practice is starting late because the Polo Intercollegiates, which will be the high mark of the season's work, do not begin this year until June 16. They will last for a week, finishing before the crew race at New London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORSEMEN TO PRACTICE AT DEDHAM IN MAY | 4/12/1927 | See Source »

...MISS PANKHURST FINDS NO THRILL" remarked the press. In London, Christabel Pankhurst, onetime militant suffragist, window-smasher, picket of Parliaments, had sighed meekly. Parliament was soon expected to pass legislation that would give the vote to all women of 21 or more in England. Suffragist Pankhurst said: "It would have been the Seventh Heaven of delight years ago if this had come to pass. But I have changed since then. Now ... I know we can make the same mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trivia | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

ZERO ? Collinson Owen ? Dodd, Mead ($2). John Garth, a London literary machine capable of producing $35,000 per annum, has fame, a mansion, a pretty wife and a son. But the wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine. Convalescing in obscurity, with a beard and scar, after the wreck of a French flyer, he decides not to correct the report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Start | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Lawrence of London. Four hundred thousand words were set down by Colonel Lawrence to recount his adventures and the history ha had made. Then he lost the manuscript, rewrote 300,000 words. These were set up and an edition of eight copies printed, three copies being destroyed. By this conduct ? seemingly inspired by a genuine desire to restrict the tale of his personal adventures to the circle of his personal friends ? Colonel Lawrence created the impression that his book must contain devasting secrets. It did not; but the public got that idea, became ravenously curious, and has raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Welsh Hero* | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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