Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown ($2.00). As big as a Chinese laundry ticket and half as legible, a certain piece of paper had some figures on it. It was signed with seven names-the signatures of the seven richest men in Germany. It was an order for the destruction of Europe. Paris betrayed, London falling in flames-that was what that little laundry ticket meant. But because it fell into the hands of Captain Tom Preston, the conspiracy was undone...
...thoughtful student from the London School of Economics" spent five months journeying through the U. S. He stopped at colleges and universities?colleges for men, for women, for men and women, for groes,' for Indians, for divines, for business men, for lawyers?30 institutions in all. At first he was staggered by the diversity of the sights he saw. Then, gradually, he formulated comprehensive ideas about U. S. education. When he returned, lately, to England, he said to his countrymen...
Charles Cavendish Bentinck; in London...
Died. William Archer. 68, famed British dramatic critic; in London. He edited, expounded, translated the plays of Henrik Ibsen; himself wrote The Green Goddess, suave hair-raiser played by George Arliss...
...after the report of the Air Mail fatality came news of a terrible accident at the Croydon airdrome in London. A De Haviland passenger airplane, carrying a pilot and seven passengers, had scarcely risen into the air on its way to Paris, when gusty weather caused trouble and a nose dive carried the plane straight into the ground from a height of two or three hundred feet. As the craft struck, the gasoline tank burst, and in a moment there was a rush of flames which rose 60 ft. into the air. A fire engine was on the spot...