Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposite York House, his London mansion, waited the Prince of Wales in his carriage, which fell in behind the Blues. Slowly, laboriously and with great dignity, the procession moved...
...Over London dropped with the suddenness of a theatre curtain a dense, dirty, yellow, cold, clammy, blanket of fog. For 24 hours the street lamps shed their ineffectual light, people walked cautiously, busses crashed into one another, policemen controlled traffic with rockets...
...density varied, as it always does in London, depending upon the locality. In places people could see 15 feet ahead; in others, men and women moved forward using their hands as antennae, like insects. Comparatively few accidents were reported ; the major inconvenience, it seemed, was postponement of the annual Oxford and Cambridge soccer match...
...London, last week, a certain acidity was apparent in The Morning Post when a luncheon was given at Claridge's by Mrs. William Randolph Hearst. Said the Post: "What wonderful things luncheons at fashionable restaurants are!" Mrs. Hearst was referred to as the wife of "the great American newspaper magnate who attacked England so bitterly at the time of England's danger. ... It might be thought that no Englishman would ever desire to have anything to do with him again...
...Manhattan, Louis Sherry's restaurant is?well, Sherry's, something the same as Claridge's in London. Sables and silks go in to Sherry's; plenty of blue blood, too, and real diamonds. The carpets are lush and silent underfoot, the waiters obsequious, the linen snowy, the crystal sparkling...