Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chargé d'Affaires of the Soviet Legation at London issued an official statement: "No money whatever has been contributed to any British strike fund at any time by the Soviet Government...
Presumably endless correspondence will ensue between London and Moscow in an effort to settle whether the moneys in question were technically sent by the Soviet Government proper or merely by its closely interlocked Soviet trade union organizations...
There was a nagging drizzle from the dull skies of a late and soggy London afternoon. Hundreds of smart motors idled in a line extending from Admiralty Arch to the gates of Buckingham Palace, which were locked. For rather more than an hour sopping but irrepressible plebeians wandered up and down the sidewalks of Pall Mall commenting audibly upon the personal appearance and regalia of helplessly belimousined princes,* peers, ambassadors, dowagers and débutantes. Finally at 8:30 p.m. the gates of Buckingham swung open. Exhaling sighs of relief, nearly 1,000 guests stepped through the Palace door, prepared...
...following whose presentation had been determined by other considerations:** The Misses Alice Lee? Eva Wise?? and Mildred Tytus of Manhattan, Miss Lorrain Liggett of Boston, Miss Caroline Patterson? of Dayton, Ohio, Miss Henrietta Johnson of Paris, Mrs. Wilson Pritchett of Philadelphia and Mrs. Curtis Brown of London...
Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton gave a ball before the first Court. First to dance with bobbed-haired Matilda Houghton was Edward of Wales. Chichibu of Nippon, Gustaf of Sweden, followed. Colonel and Mrs. Edward M. House looked on. Present was almost everyone of note then in London except Their Britannic Majesties...