Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutting. Should William Randolph Hearst announce that he was writing The Life of Christ, many persons might be vexed. Many tut-tutted last week when "the Hearst of England," Lord Beaverbrook,* owner of the lurid London Daily Express, etc., announced that he is writing a biography of the Nazarene "in an arresting style . .. great reverence. .. sincerity ... will explain the Savior's actions...
Pilgrim. At the Hyde Park Hotel, London, there arrived last week James Hazen Hyde, founder and onetime president of the potent U.S. Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Hyde was attended by a cook, a librarian and twelve other khitmutgars. He took a suite overlooking Hyde Park. Said he: "I am on a pilgrimage. My family's former estate was Hyde Park. Four hundred years ago they lived at Hyde Park Manor House, later confiscated by Henry VIII...
...them instead. When the moon was full, he hurled nothing at all. Occasionally he wrapped lumps of coal in £100 notes ($500) and heaved them at submissive heads. Countless eyewitnesses testify to his evident delight in scorched palms and bruised flesh. For many years he journeyed often to London and personally drew the gold and silver which he scattered, from a bank which allegedly received some $20,000 a week from the administrators of his property in the U. S. For years a group of London beggars made pilgrimages to Brightlingsea...
Died. Henry Miller, 66, famed U.S. London-born actor, producer, theatre owner, director and occasional playwright; in Manhattan of pneumonia...
...writing reflects the true instinct and feeling of a born naturalist, and he has long been accepted as the peer of men like Ernest Thompson Seton and the late Jack London. Acclaim has come not only from naturalists but? much more important?from hosts of readers who know what's what about storytelling. That celebrated field naturalist, Director William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park, has paid tribute to Mr. Hawkes' "marvelous fidelity" in describing the sunlit world he knew so briefly and in supplementing (as all good nature writing must be supplemented) with lore from trappers, hunters...