Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luisa Tetrazzini-she for whom cannon have been fired, roses thrown, dress-suited cavaliers hitched in place of horses to glistening carriages-appeared in Albert Hall, London, before some Britishers. The Hall was more than half empty. The buxom woman trilled her best but Oh! the stolid faces, Ah! the gaping stalls. Afterwards, downcast, she assailed her agents, saying that they had charged too ninth, advertised too little. The agents politely replied that a singer of Tetrazzini's fame did not need much advertising, that she could command tall rates, but that she should not cheapen her voice...
...published,? It tells all this, with many extracts from his noble utterances. But there is one great gap. According to his biographer, "a spoken wish of Dr. Jowett's in his last hours of weakness" forbade the publication of the sermons preached during his last three years in London (1918-21). What were, they? They were fighting sermons against 1) the British factory system, 2) money worship, 3) carnality, 4) international hatred...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs, Barklie McK. Henry (Barbara Whitney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney), a daughter; in London...
...following the trial and acquittal of one Annie Besant and one Charles Bradlaugh for distributing birth control literature, a Neo-Malthusian League was formed in London. A quarter of a century later, the first Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference was held in Paris, repeated at Liege, in 1901; The Hague, 1910; Dresden, 1911; London...
...Drysdale of the University of London, President of the Conference, hailed Mrs. Sanger as "the Joan of Arc and the Florence Nightingale of the birth-control movement...