Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political suicide. At the age of 73, however, and with the fortunes of the Liberal Party at their lowest ebb, the barrier to the Lords was obviously removed. Were it not that he was opposed in principle to accepting honors for himself, the matter might rest there; but, as London club talk had it, his last scruples were overcome by his dynamic wife...
...years later, little Herbert was shipped to London, where he attended the City of London School and was early taught "to fend for himself." This incident has given rise to the fiction that he was penniless. His allowance was extremely small, 'because his family believed in young men making their fortunes unaided, but his father was comfortably off and the maternal grand folks were rich...
...While in London he worked hard, practiced the art of oratory, was "a constant votary of the play." At the age of 17 he won a scholarship at Balliol and from then on the whole of his 'varsity life was literally one honor after another. Small wonder that his contemporaries predicted great things for him. But, though he was successful at Oxford, his success at the bar, while not so swift, gave him the surest foundation for his political career. As a young barrister he reached the pinnacle of his fame in his able management of the great case...
...pound sterling soars upward on its triumphant return journey to parity, Canadian financiers forecast an early return to the London money market. For some years, Canada has done much of its financing in Manhattan, although there was a decided lull in 1924. With sterling at par, Canadians would be able to borrow less expensively in London where, before the War, they did most of their financing...
...most interesting of the posters to be placed on exhibition is one dated November 19, 1838, and advertising the production of "Oliver Twist" at the Surrey Theatre of London. Dickens' always disliked watching his own plays on the stage and seldom attended them. On this occasion, however, his friend Mr. Foster persuaded him to go to the play, but before the show was half over Dickens could stand it no longer; so he slid down onto the floor of his box and remained under the seats with only his head showing until the performance was over...