Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Countess Russell endeavored to excuse aged U. S. journalist-lecturer Poultney Bigelow for asserting* that famed British novelist-historian H. G. Wells seemed to him like "a lucky stock-broker or traveling salesman," on the now famous occasion of their meeting at Countess Russell's flat (TIME, Jan. 25). Said Countess Russell, famed as the anonymous author of Elizabeth and her German Garden, known to pre-War German society as the Countess von Arnim, before her marriage Miss Mary Annette Beauchamp: "Bigelow is full of generous admiration. He gilds one with his warm rays. I am persuaded that...
...sleek, bearded Latin and an expansive, rubicund Briton. The most powerful self-made Italian industrialist, and the most genial onetime First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Such were the two completely antithetical statesmen who sat down to dicker over a settlement of the Anglo-Italian debt, in London, last week. What they said to each other naturally remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were expected to compromise have been made clear by the Italian and British press for some months past. Mr. Churchill was acutely conscious that the British taxpayer believes...
...Most of the cast have departed to show London how U. S. prizefighters talk. The local substitutes are highly capable...
Married. The divorced wife of the Marquess of Queensberry,* formerly Irene Richards of the Gaiety Theatre, London, to Sir James Hamet Dunn of London; in Paris. Died. George M. Stadelman, 52, President of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Vice President of the Rubber Association of America, pioneer U. S. rubber manufacturer, onetime carriage tire salesman; at Akron, Ohio, suddenly, possibly as result of a shock sustained when thugs not long ago forced Mr. and Mrs. Stadelman to aid them in ransacking the Stadelman home...
...Grandson of Sir John Sholto Douglas, eighth Marquess of Queensberry, founder of the Amateur Athletic Club (London) and formulator of the formal rules of fisticuffs. Sir John, too, had domestic difficulties: divorced by his first wife, his second marriage annulled. It was Sir John who publicly denounced Poet Oscar Wilde's homosexual practices; Sir John who arose, at Alfred Lord Tennyson's play, Promise of May, and denounced the "imaginary freethinker" portrayed as "an abominable caricature." Sir John died...