Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blowing from England at almost 90 miles per hour. The plane was speeding like an arrow through the wind and yet was standing still while the tugboat crept forward. At a touch of the pilot's controls the air liner soared up to quiet air, sped on toward London, left the tug behind...
Throughout England this great wind, so easily overcome by the airplane, blew down 150 telephone lines, blew up floods from several rivers, blew a steeplejack off the spire of St. Helen's Church, London, killing him instantly, injured 300 persons, killed 19 beside the poor steeplejack...
Sharp Claws. The British War Office announced that it would have 20,000 British troops in China by the end of February. Ten thousand picked infantrymen, including a battalion of the crack Coldstream Guards, embarked at London last week for China, and 450 Punjabis from British India were rushed from Hongkong to Shanghai...
Ingratiating Tail. When news of this threatening reaction in China to Britain's mobilization reached London, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain tried to calm the Chinese by issuing a most conciliatory statement. He said that Britain is now ready to change the whole status of foreigners in China as follows: 1) Remodeling of the system ("extraterritoriality") whereby foreign malefactors in China have been tried before consular courts of their own nation. Britain now proposes that suits brought by Britons in China shall be tried by the Chinese courts; and suits brought against Britons shall be tried under Chinese...
...carillon is the gift of Richard Teller Crane Jr., in memory of his father, founder of the potent Crane Co. (plumbing fixtures). Last week the bells were tested in London and found to be in perfect harmony with a 53-bell carillon which will soon ring from the Canadian houses of Parliament at Ottawa. The St. Chrysostom bells will be operated by electro-pneumatic machinery and can be played by telegraph from a distance of 3,000 miles. The keyboard has a touch as delicate as a piano...