Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, it was announced that the new Oxford English Dictionary, now being compiled, would include and define English slang expressions coined during the War, such as: "dud," "doughboy," "strafe." The expression "Getting the wind up," meaning "to become nervous," was said to be puzzling the lexicographers, who finally decided to leave its origin indefinite. Common belief is that this phrase originated with the British air forces. Aviators, to whom wind meant danger, used "getting the wind up" as an equivalent for "borrowing trouble...
...Hugo Eckener (TIME, Oct. 27), onetime German pilot of the ZR3 (now the Los Angeles (TIME, Dec. 8), before the Royal Aeronautical Society of London, last week, presented an interesting estimate of the commercial possibilities of airship travel based upon the service of three large airships for regular Atlantic crossings. The approximate cost of each trip would be $50,000, while the revenue would be something like $80,000 from 25 to 30 passengers (at a rate of about $5 for each pound avoirdupois), $15,000 from mails and $20,000 from baggage and express packages, leaving a neat profit...
...Queen's Club, London, a sports ground entirely surrounded by dwellings, a vast concourse of people assembled to see an international interuniversity one-mile relay race. Three university teams took part: Cambridge (all English), Pennsylvania (all American), Oxford (two Americans, one Canadian, one English). They finished in that order amid a furor of British enthusiasm. The time was 3 min. 22 3/5 sec., a poor showing against the British record of 3 min. 18 1/5 sec. and the world's record, established by the American Legion of the State of Pennsylvania...
...meeting of the Tanganyika Concessions Co. in London, recently, produced considerable valuable information about the future of the Katanga Copper Co. of Africa...
...William Watling- quaint as well as Rotarian, eccentric as well as honest. A terse, explosive talker. When he is old, give him a struggle to keep his winnings, a nervous breakdown in the crisis. That gets sympathy. It will be more easily visualized if you locate the Emporium in London. Your love theme will be Watling's daughter, who should have been his son, and the amiable loafer of whom she makes a keen business...