Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Auxiliary. The Women's Auxiliary of the Legion, also in convention, elected Mrs. Eliza London Sheppard of San Francisco as its head. Her brother is the late famed he-man writer, Jack London...
...lowering of certain wage scales since the Baldwin coal subsidy went into effect (TIME, Aug. 31), the miners would refuse to testify before the Royal Commission* which is now gathering data on the coal dispute. Last week, in the meeting of the British Miners' Delegate Conference, at London, this recalcitrant stand was voted down, five...
...London a first novel entitled The Madonna of the Barricades appeared in quantities on the display racks of booksellers. Semi-literates, attracted by the title, thumbed it just sufficiently to discover that its characters had been set amid the French Revolution of 1848. When they found no stimulating literary garbage interlarded as a bait for popularity, they laid the book aside...
Richard Henry Parnell Curle of London, writer, world-traveller, book collector, and sportsman, who was a close friend of both Joseph Conrad and W. H. Hudson, will give a lecture at the University on Tuesday evening, October 20, at 8 o'clock in Emerson Hall, Room D, under the auspices of the Department of English...
...Lloyd-Jones, who is acting as manager, is the Welsh member of the team, the other two hailing from Scotland and London. Mr. Lloyd-Jones prepared for Oxford at the University of London, and is the only visiting orator who did not attend a so-called "public" school. His college is Jesus, and he classes himself politically as a Liberal. Although Welshmen have the reputation of being eloquent, he is the first man from that part of Great Britain to preside over the Oxford Union...