Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solaces the nameless artist for years of neglect. Just why it should be believed remains a mystery, for all too often the evidence points to its converse. Artificial flowers last longest." Thus, some years ago, wrote a critic. Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room. The scene was Christie's. An elegant company, in satins and swallowtails, lounged before the auctioneer's rostrum, watching some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked in an ancient language, for they were dealer's agents, and their nodding heads, their twitching forefingers, indicated bids...
...time work would be resumed and peace negotiations continued. ¶ Dozed as Premier Baldwin, seemingly fatigued, "run down," replied to Mr. Lloyd George that the time for granting a subsidy had irredeemably passed. ¶ Perused with interest garbled reports of a general conference of Miners' Federation delegates in London at which A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, bitter-ender Communist secretary of the Miners' Federation, reputedly admitted that the miners may have to accept a lower wage than that for which they are fighting but enjoined them to a last ditch fight to retain the seven-hour day. The Seven...
...Right Honorable William Maxwell Aitken, well known as Lord Beaverbrook, notorious as "the Hearst of England," blatant chief proprietor of the London Daily Express, etc., enlivened the pages of that raucous news organ last week with an attack on Britain's resumption of the gold standard (TIME...
Continuing in wrathful vein, Lord Beaverbrook took as his text the reputed failure of the London firm of Furness Withy & Co. to purchase the White Star Line for more than ?6,000,000 because the transfer of such a sum to the White Star Line's U. S. owners might have depressed the pound in relation to the dollar. Pointing the moral, Lord Beaverbrook concluded: "The idea of enforcing the return to the gold standard was that we should be able to buy on equal terms in America...
...asked, "didn't someone quietly drown Rudolph Guglielmo (alias Valentino) years ago? . . . Chicago has its powder puffs; London, its dancing men, Paris its gigolos. Down with Decatur; up with Elinor Glyn. Hollywood is the national school of masculinity. Rudy, the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American male. Hell's bells! Oh, sugar...