Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London British feminists crowded to a banquet in honor of Miss Christabel Pankhurst, pioneer militant suffragist, recently returned from Canada. Excerpts from ensuing speeches...
...tale of homely people whose lives touch and intertwine through their proximity to each other in that curiously respectable phenomenon of urbanity, a London lodging house, Miss Phillpotts evinces a mature power without wholly sustaining the reader's credulity. One cannot help wondering at the sudden transformation of me elf-child Nancy, untaught, uncontrolled, into a strangely self-restrained girl, capable of extraordinary devotion to a uninspiring priest. Why did not her perception of and longing for the nobler love render the beautiful and gifted Carlota, so comprehending of herself and others, impervious to a love far from satisfying...
...Marvin, A. M. '17, Ph.D. '20, Arizona; R. B. Emmons '06, Los Angeles, California; B. H. Dibblee '99, San Francisco, California; W. S. Fales '90, Colorado; N. H. Batchelder '01, Connecticut; Le Roy Harvey '94, Delaware; Walter Tuckerman '03, District of Columbia; T. H. McKittrick Jr. '11, London; C. D. Morgan '06, Paris; H. G. Dillingham '04, Honolulu ; Barrell Wendell '02, Illinois; P. C. Lewis '17, Indianapolis; D. D. L. McGrew '03, Japan; Harold Hinckley '02, Bangor, Maine; J. C. Hamlen Jr. '09, Portland, Maine; J. C. Hamlen Jr. '09, Portland, Maine; A. M. Tyson '90, Maryland; N. F. Ayer...
...George and the Dragon published in 1782. Among the most interesting of the others is one of seven original drawings which were made for Punch by John Leech from 1845-1859. These drawings represent the reactions of the common people to a financial panic which occurred in London at that time. Another of particular current interest is the graphic representation of a man trying to figure out his income tax statement. At the top of the picture is the inscription. "Cease rude Boreas blustering sailes, trust your fortune's care...
After four years, he returned to Illinois and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 another request, this time from President Harrison, took him to London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Returning again to his native state, he refused to run for the U. S. Senate. George A. Pullman died and Mr. Lincoln became executor of his estate, enjoying a $400,000 fee and the presidency of the sleeping car company. He visited the Buffalo Exposition and witnessed a third presidential assassination, McKinley shot by Anarchist Czolgosz...