Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene of an extraordinary mock session staged for the benefit of 859 U. S. college preceptors visiting London under the auspices of the Art Trust Guild of Chicago. Sir Samuel Chapman, M. P., and Lady Astor enacted, during a recess of the House, the respective roles of a mock-Speaker and a mock-Clydside Laborite extremist. "Attaboy!" shouted many a U. S. savant as the Right Honorable Lady refused to desist from her ex tempore harangue on War debts when called to order by "Speaker" Chapman. Eventually she subsided as her fellow M. P.'s trooped back into...
Loud plaudits, transient fame, and sometimes lasting wealth are deemed the typical rewards of champions. Men honor perhaps too often and too eagerly their strong, enduring or dexterous brethren. Yet this is not always so. Last week, during one sweltering London afternoon, a little man of 61, whose brown beard is turning white, set what is believed to be a world's record, yet reaped no plaudits and no pelf...
Finance Minister Caillaux returned to Paris, from London last week a fiscal conqueror. The Franco -British debt settlement (TIME, July 19), which he had negotiated with Chancellor Churchill was supplemented by attached correspondence providing that should France ever fail* to receive less than 50% of the contemplated German reparations payments, Britain will consent to a renegotiation of the entire Franco-British debt...
Before the conference of Anglo-American historians, meeting last week in London, went Premier Stanley Baldwin of Britain to welcome them and to enunciate a Tory view of historical writing that caused a flurry of international comment, mostly favorable. Said Mr. Baldwin: "I am quite sure that if you try to bring up youth on entirely unbiased history he will never read it. I prefer my own method of getting a vivid picture first and correcting it afterwards; because, generally speaking, you do not want to be fair until you are grown up. ... I think that to try to make...
...Consult Mr. Marcus Faithful." Then, as an immaculately tailored magnifico, he accords exceedingly confidential interviews to hundreds of expectant London ladies, relieving them of maternal anxieties and fat fees. A fallen gentleman, Mr. Still, is his able secretary. A charming, competent demimondaine blackmails her way into the business, putting it on a wholesale basis through the post. After a certain number of months, of course, the jig seems up, and Mr. Marcus Faithful becomes small Mr. Crump again, dismayed when his hitherto barren wife bears twins as the result of secret correspondence with Mr. Faithful. The rich travesty on modern...