Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London it was announced that the Right Honorable Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, M. P., only son of Lord Halifax (Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales) has been appointed Viceroy of India, to succeed Lord Reading upon the latter's announced retirement next April...
They recalled that to the name of Rufus Daniel Isaacs he added the style of Baron, Viscount and Earl, during the War. And though his mother was born "a simple Cohen," and his father was "a merchant in the City of London," he himself became Lord Chief Justice of England as early as 1913. As President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. in 1915, Special Envoy thither in 1917, and High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. later in that year, he well earned the titles subsequently conferred upon him by carrying...
...Thus at London. At Melton Mowbray, the Prince's hunting centre, he was having his own troubles. Stealthy and insidious, the dread "hoof and mouth disease" has been blighting English cattle in many counties of late. It was feared that the Prince's horses and hunting dogs might spread the disease as they swooped in full cry after an elusive fox. Therefore, the Prince did not hunt...
...something of relief to find a play in which scholarship and a sense of beauty are predominant, particularly a play from England, from which domain the deftly decadent effusions of Michael Arlen have this season been most conspicuous. Ashley Dukes, London critic, has written his comedy around a night at an inn, an old time inn, from the shingle of which the title of the play is taken...
CHRISTINA ALBERTA'S FATHER- H. G. Wells-MacMillan ($2.50). Returning to a dilatory manner that he had before he began inventing worlds, Mr. Wells writes of the husband and daughter of a London laundress and what they did when, their capable relative dying, they shook off the suds and embarked upon a career untrammeled by clotheslines. It is a contemporaneous chronicle, in the age of Ramsay MacDonald, broadcasting and world-flying. So that there are several "remarkable experiences", especially for Widower Preemby, despite the fact that some of the minor characters play Canfield every evening...