Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was magnified into imminent importance by the U. S. press. London, Paris, Rome and Tokyo were being "informally approached." The forthcoming' conference would "deal with matters outside the scope of the Washington Naval Treaty and would probably include aerial but not land armaments." The inevitable "high authority at Washington" stated that foundations for the conference were being laid...
...London, in answer to another of Commander Kenworthy's deep-laid questions, Mr. Chamberlain said...
...France, the Government was surprised, bought a number of London newspapers, acquainted themselves with the facts of the conversations that were supposed to be taking place in Paris. After astonishment had worn off, the capital received the conference news frigidly. France would want a large shoal of submarines. They were indispensable to her national security. But a principal agendum of the conference is the limitation of submarines. Hence the French hostility...
...these ends, they engaged Laura Hope Crews, who gives way to few of our light comediennes. They showed her married to a British business man whose thoughts were ever far away among his ledgers. They showed her annoyance at their resultant domestic doldrums. They showed her escape to a London luncheon with a less worthy but more perceptive character. They showed that this was all a ruse which, divulged discreetly to the husband, proved to him that his wife must, after all, be included in his interests...
...hopelessly on the ground, on his stomach, and rolled over on his back." After that battle, Corbett made milk famous all over the world by drinking a glass of it to celebrate his victory. Came a night when he was the guest at a supper in the Savoy Hotel, London, at which Loie Fuller, dancer, and Mme. Yvette Guilbert performed for him as if he were royalty. Where another would thump his chest in robust braggadocio, he speaks with a sly wink and a deprecating gesture, for he wants the reader to understand that Corbett was a prize-fighter...