Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip, which he has made every year or two in the past in a similar way, for the purpose of conferring with the officers of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which is the New York representative of the Bank of England. I made a similar trip to London last spring...
...House of Commons, as Conservative member of North St. Pancras, London, is blind Captain Ian Frazer. His wife is his pilot and "parliamentary secretary"; but, according to the rules of the House, she cannot accompany him to those parts specifically reserved for members. Mr. Speaker Whitley came to the rescue. With great tact and courtesy, he issued last week to Mrs. Frazer a special permit enabling her to go anywhere, except on "the Floor of the House...
Tired of making prophecies about the Prince of Wales, the drawing-room dowagers of London have turned to Prince Henry and Prince George, younger sons of the King and Queen. Prince Henry, according to report, is to marry Lady Mary
...Daily Telegraph of London gave the lie to a report (TIME, Dec. 22) that the War Lord had left Moscow for the Caucasus. According to this newspaper, his enemies had jailed...
When, in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire, after more than 800 reeling years, was jostled into its last bloody gutter by a Corsican elbow, when Virtue raged unchecked in England and that shrewd but disappointed politician, George III, was declared hopelessly insane, certain print shops in London began to sell miniature theatres. With them they sold engraved cards of scenes and characters; the price-a penny plain and tuppence colored. The game of playing with these toys became a fad more prevalent even than Virtue, and as fevered as the undone George. Recently, in the bookshop of S. Nott...