Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look forward with hope to the day when there will be a free gold market in England, and in all Europe. I remember talking with a distinguished banker in London within the last three months, and he said: 'Your country has most of the gold in the world. What are you going to do with it?' My answer was: 'Bring the pound sterling to a gold basis and restore the currencies of Europe, and the gold question will settle itself...
Herriot of that speech with the Herriot I knew in London." He went on to deny the allegations of the French Premier, to say that the drilling of a few thousand students was unimportant because they had no arms, that the amount of war material found was insignificant compared to the amount destroyed ; moreover there were no munitions factories, no modern fortresses, hardly any artillery. "Does M. Herriot really believe the details repeated by him can be looked upon, even remotely, as proof of a threat against France's security...
More than ten years have passed since the Treaty of London was signed (1913), when the Powers set the boundary of Turkey-in-Europe along a line drawn from Enos on the Aegean Sea to Medea on the Black Sea. The Powers should have fixed a straight line, because, a little later, the Turks successfully upheld their claim to territory within a curved line that took in Adrianople...
...Story. On board a liner bound for San Francisco from London, in 1851, were 50 miscellaneous orphans in charge of Miss Charlotte Smith, a young English spinster. The ship also contained one O'Malley, inebriate doctor, a Scotswoman named Jean, some scoundrelly sailors and many others who would doubtless have been relevant to this account had not God broken that ship in half, tipping all its wretched occupants into an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean...
...write that light comedies are everlasting entertainment. They do not try to be. They are just light comedies to make you laugh. Forty Winks decidedly is and does. There is a mock melodramatic plot about stolen papers and government intrigue. Raymond Griffith is excellent in the "Cheerio" type of London leading...