Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ranchman and woolen manufacturer until he was 35, when he began his diplomatic career at Petrograd. Since then he has toasted monarchs and men at Peking, at Petrograd again, at Washington, Paris, Lima. He has been second in command of the U. S. embassy in London since 1923. In 1922 the Irish Free State was founded. Last week the Secretary of State announced his appointment as first U. S. Minister to that part of Ireland which is governed from Dublin. Many an Irish-American was vexed that he was not a Sullivan, O'Rourke, Kelley, Callahan, Collins, Gallagher...
When "Lillie Langtry," now Lady de Bathe, entered the Casino at Monte Carlo last week, after the trial in London was over, she was surrounded by purring women friends who rushed to kiss and congratulate her upon her vindication...
Eugene Chen. Who is this Chinese with whom the august Chancellor of the Exchequer deigned to bandy words? In 1878 he was born in Trinidad, British West Indies; went to London, qualified as a solicitor (lawyer) and enjoyed a successful practice for some years in the capital of the very power he is now fighting tooth and nail...
...whom he is now fighting, and carried in chains before Chang. That barbaric War Lord, who slaughters even his own followers if they displease him (TIME, July 19), yielded to a whim and let Chen go. "Eugene Chen" is, of course, merely the Anglicism which he adopted as a London lawyer to translate his Chinese name: Chen...
...lolling sublimely in the caresses of Armida and her sprites. Van Dyck painted it expressly for Charles I in 1629 and 1630. It has been in England ever since, until Knoedler & Co. recently bought it, shipped it to Manhattan. Jacob Epstein first saw it in Knoedler's London galleries...