Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silence. It was light enough to read the bronze tablet: "This chapel was restored in 1907 in memory, of John Harvard by the sons and friends of Harvard University." and, opposite, another tablet, saying that the window was given by Joseph Choate, Harvard, 1862: American Ambassador in London...
...London, which seems to be the happy-hunting ground for Mr. Clive's play-pickers, the current Copley play had great popularity. It should have the same reception in this stronghold of Anglo-philes. Someone told Mr. Clive that there was nothing like farce for his stage, and Boston can resign itself to the fare for many a month, until the London farce market is exhausted. Fortunately, his informant was a very shrewd fellow. There is nothing like farce for the Copley...
...Author. Meade Minnigerode, haunting wraith of the New York Yale Club, was born in London and went to Harrow, but lost no time thereafter in returning to his parents' homeland, where he was graduated by Yale in 1910. He has embraced literature and yachting ever since, is unmarried and free to spend himself upon a third enthusiasm, his society at Alma Mater, the Elihu Club. The secret of writing biographical history, he declares, is a knowledge of the card-index system of any substantial public library. For writing Cordelia Chantrell he evidently added to his historical method a study...
...title simply means, from a British catchphrase, "wrong train." Denham Dobie, daughter of a peace-loving British cleric, grows up barefoot in a remote Spanish hamlet with a native stepmother and half-breed half-sisters. Her father dies. Her aunt, the Elinor Glynnish wife of a smart London publisher, "rescues" the reluctant orphan, who makes no head nor tail of her relatives' civilized occupations: incessantly scribbling books or about books, doing things they dislike because others do them, concerning themselves with every one's private affairs, eternally gibbling, gabbling. Give Denham a map, a fishline, a toy boat...
Last week occurred once more a far-heralded London sale, one of those dispersals of private collections of British nobility so frequent since the War, one of those sales through which Sir Joseph Duveen and others have acquired and brought to the U. S. a rather deep skimming of the cream of British art. Captain Jefferson Cohn, rich turfman (TIME, Nov. 29) had bought the house, but not the famed art collection therein, of Dowager Baroness Michelham, the house once home of the spidery-signatured Marquis of Salisbury, Britain's onetime most aristocratic Premier. The Dowager Baroness Michelham...