Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American plays are corrupting the English language in its native land according to Mr. C. B. Cochran, London theatrical producer. No longer is the Mayfair patois spoken in England; instead one hears "the language of Broadway". Titled ladies, grown weary of formalisms, delight in this latest vogue. And the new rich are cured of dropping their his only to affect a dialed peculiar to the characters created by Mr. Ring Laidner. There ought, says the patriotic producer...
Died. Lady Elizabeth Grace Dimsdale, 44, widow of Sir John Dimsdale of London, who shot himself in 1922, "social house mistress" at Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Conn., girls' school); in London, by drinking lysol...
...Story.* Sam Raingo, sly master of chicane, pensively retired millionaire, is called to London by the comrade of his homely boyhood in the north of England, Andy Clyth. It is 1918. Silver-haired Andy, actor, poet, jealous but genial friend, is Prime Minister and, since the War is going well, " the greatest man in the world." For years he has snubbed Sam Raingo politically. Now he needs him to manage the Ministry of Records, which is to say, British propaganda at home and abroad. Over a breakfast in No. 10 Downing St. an adroit bluffing match...
...Danube and debouch upon the Black Sea? The key link is the Ludwig Canal, begun by Charlemagne 1,200 years ago. With 101 locks in 107 miles it climbs out of Bavaria through the clouds of the Frankischer Jura mountains and deposits you in Austria. . The German Consulate at London had never heard of it Dutchmen were dubious about its continued existence. But Skipper Farson's faith was great. With a crew of one (his wife) and high credentials from the Chicago Daily News he braved the uncertainty in a 26-foot power yawl, the Flame...
...England first established friendly relations with them in order to procure ports from which to raid the Spaniards, for her buccaneers. Oldman, after a visit to London, received a royal commission from Charles Stuart and ruled his people in nominal independence...