Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand." Recently Death pounced upon the great black tomcat which has dozed of a morning these many years atop the bar. Bleary bibbers were inconsolable. Mournfully they protested that without the tomcat Finch's would not be Finch...
...James Morton has the laugh on Lady Astor," said A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, Secretary of the British Coal Miners' Federation, returning last week to London from a triumphant visit to Moscow (TIME...
...long dead requires Virginia farmers to plant six mulberry trees per annum for seven years. Just before .the Revolution a great fever for growing silk swept the colonies. In 1771 President Stiles of Yale and Mrs. Stiles raised 3,000 silkworms and sent their produce to a friend in London; where, with more strands bought of Benjamin Franklin, who kept worms in Philadelphia, 10¼ yards of cloth were woven for the friend's wife's dress. In 1791 a Mr. Aspinwall persuaded the New York Assembly to promise a bounty of $3 for every 100 mulberry trees...
...crisp announcement to the press. It read: "Mr. Francis Dwight Bartow, Mr. Arthur Marvin Anderson and Mr. William Ewing, who have hitherto held procuration for our firm in New York, are this day admitted as partners in our firms in New York (J. P. Morgan & Co.), Philadelphia (Drexel & Co.), London (Morgan, Grenfell & Co.) and Paris (Morgan...
Long Talk. By mid-January long distance telephone service will be in commission between Manhattan and London (3,500 miles) over a combination of land lines and wireless waves. The cost will be $25 a minute, with a refund in case static blurs the conversation. Since transatlantic cable rates are 22c a word, this means that the person who can distinctly speak more than 115 words a minute will save money by the new way. But he must talk with a low, steady tone, else his voice will be blurred when carried across the chain of hair-adjusted transmitting machines...