Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been President for 18 months and promises to be for 48 months more. Yet the public still knows him only by his masks-witness his nicknames: "Calvin the Cool," "Cautious Cal," "Calvin the Silent," "Economy Cal"-and it is said that in London he is known as "Courageous Cal," in Paris as "Le Capitaine...
Gilbert Murray. To the Society for Psychical Research in London, one Mrs. Henry Sedgwick read a paper on thought transference in which she reviewed the results of 259 experiments conducted over a period of years...
...them, and it seems that these same outological methods are still the ones that lend tenacity to belief in spiritualism. Scientific methods can go on disproving forever, and yet they cannot be conclusive for people whose desire is their belief. Even a dramatic expose like the recent one in London where "spirits" photographs were recognized as living pugilists and show girls does not seem to quash the idea. It is one which humanity cherishes, and therefore one which will recur again and again...
...assisting artist is Miss Dusolina Giannini, who has risen to fame since her recent successes in New York and London. Mozart and Handel feature her program, which is varied with Italian and Spanish folk songs...
...away from school, in five years had made-and lost-$60,000 in speculation. He bought copper stock for 75c, sold it for $60 a share, won a new sobriquet, "the Copper King." Died. Oliver Heavisicle, 70, last year awarded a gold medal by the Society of Electrical Engineers (London), as "the greatest living authority on electricity"; in Devonshire, England, of a fall from a ladder. He was obscure, frequently destitute, a recluse in his cottage. His death notice was to many the first intimation of his existence. Died. John W. Alden, 77, direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden...