Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S., recently published a second edition of his book on the U. S. Constitution bearing an introduction by Calvin Coolidge and a dedication, to "the Masters of the Bench of Gray's Inn [London]". A previous edition had been dedicated to "the Honorable Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney-General of the United States, a true and loyal friend, a fair and chivalrous...
...English which has great significance. At Oxford a man's first duty is to "keep term," without which, work as he may, he cannot possibly obtain a degree. "Keeping term," brought down to its final analysis, consists in eating a given number of dinners at his college. In London, a law student at the Inns of Court must, if he ever hopes to become a barrister, eat at least three dinners in the hall of his particular Inn. Thus, by the lime a politician has been through Oxford and becomes a barrister-at-law, dinner-eating has become a firmly...
...Ambassadors are early introduced to this quaint English custom. It is now a part of the London Ambassador's duty to eat dinner with the Pilgrims on his arrival and again on his departure...
...subject of gold, which all financial London is madly discussing (TIME, Jan. 19), the Ambassador remarked...
...newspapers of the country have received the satire with attitudes varying from disgust to enthusiasm. The New London Times condemns it as "juvenile sophistication." while the Boston Advertiser hails it as a "wild rebel fling." But all opposition notwithstanding more copies of the H. B. S. number have been ordered than can be filled at present. Hence the new edition...