Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord hopes to secure the lady for himself. Failing in his bluntly amorous attack, he sets his servant the task of seducing and humiliating her. In the process the slightly battered courtesan and the discreetly handsome manservant fall in love and dash off, as the curtain falls, to a London marriage altar...
Many famous veterinarians have done what they could. In London two years ago, the Fields Distemper Council started an elaborate experimental farm (TIME, Sept 24, 1923). Last week Dr. J. W. Patton, in the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital, Manhattan, let it be known that he is using ultra-violet-ray treatment. He installed a quartz lamp and put blue goggles on the dogs to protect their eyes from the strong light. But he does not believe he has found a cure...
...VORTEX-London society at decadent, amusing, and finally fearfully moving moments. Noel Coward, actor and author...
...next three generations of Steinways to make such a fortune in the piano business as the last three? A flying hint from here and there has lately indicated that the prestige of the pianoforte is failing. Last month, for instance, one Hugh Blaker wrote a letter to the London Spectator: "Sir, If it is correct that the popularity of the piano is declining, it will be the greatest stimulus to the appreciation of pure music since the Seventeenth Century. Almost all the vulgarity and over-cleverness of modern musical expression can be traced to the universal cult of the piano...
...George Bernard Shaw was one of the first men I met in London. I forget how I encountered him... He used to drop in and talk of his brilliant future and vow he would achieve it .... He had just written Cashel Byron's Profession, the only book of his I have ever read, and that because he gave it to me, though once later I heard him read Candida at H. W. Massingham's, and that was enough for me .... Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that...