Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-sleeked motor purred into London last week, its hood piled high with sprays of lilac, armfuls of bluebells. As the car sped down Whitehall, slowed, turned into Downing Street, passing Londoners smiled at the genial Briton who beamed from the tonneau upon the world in general. It was like Premier Baldwin, the Londoners told each other, to go motoring in the country for a few days, recreate himself thoroughly, and then return to grapple with the coal strike, which continued last week despite the calling off of the great "general strike" (TIME...
Representatives of both factions met in London, during the week, and rejected the Government plan, though leaving open the way to future negotiation. Both miners and operators opposed fiercely the Government proposal to place the adjustment of wages in the hands of a board whose neutral chairman would have a casting vote over the equal representatives of mine capital and miner labor...
When Brown first arrives in Cambridge he mistakes the Dickey Clubhouse for his dormitory and is thrown out on his ear. Nothing daunted, he proceeds to "pick up" the pretty daughter of a professor. The following spring, the night before the boat races at New London, he gets stewed, although he is substitute stroke on the freshman crew and is called upon to row the race, which he loses. Finally, with his help, Harvard licks Yale at football ten to three. Is it necessary to go on? You may not know much about Harvard, but believe me, such things just...
...nearly all seasoned diplomats with a lifetime of experience in international dealings. The U. S. delegate, Mr. Hugh Simpson Gibson, began his diplomatic career as a secretary to the U. S. legation at Tegucigalpa in 1908. He progressed steadily through increasingly responsible posts at Honduras, Havana, Santo Domingo, Brussels, London and Paris, until he was appointed U. S. Minister to Poland (1919-24) and finally to Switzerland, his present post. Paradoxically, the German delegate is Count von Bernstorff, famed as the pre-war German Ambassador...
When Commander Byrd learned the Norge was safe, he began preparations for his own trip to London...