Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, scurried from London. At Paris, he found time to put in a sound half-day's work. At Rome, he was enthusiastically received, became a cynosure...
...London, however, a storm of indignation broke at the mere idea of France discussing her debt with America before making some pro- nouncement of her intentions regarding the debt of nearly $3,000,000,000 which is owing to Britain. The Morning Post: "If Germany had won the War, the American Congress, instead of laying down terms according to which France and Great Britain were to pay, would be discussing ways and means for paying an indemnity, a pretty fat one, to William Hohenzollern...
From the library edition of his works Mr. George Moore withdrew his book of criticism, Impressions and Opinions, substituted the present volume of conversations "to revive a form in which criticism can be conducted more agreeably than in the essay." To 121 Ebury Street, London, he invites his friends: Walter de la Mare, John Freeman, Granville Barker, Edmund Gosse, many others. Graciously, in the candlelight, by his comfortable hearth, he spins for them the shining web of his prose. Hardy is damned; Balzac exalted; one learns that the writing of George Eliot is "without pleasure," that boiled chicken has never...
...Englishman, son and grandson of Methodist ministers, Dr. Cadman devoted his scholarly efforts at Richman College, London, to Philology and the Classics. He was ordained at 26, after study at Illinois Wesleyan. In his handling of his second pastorate (at Yonkers, N. Y.), he exhibited a genius for organizing that lifted him high and brought under his hand four Manhattan churches. The Brooklyn call came in 1901, to the Central Congregational Church. He is known as a pulpit orator, widely read, hard of head, a man whose breadth of information (his specialty is the Oxford Movement) keeps abreast...
...London in the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, before Lord Justice Darling and a special jury composed of men and women, was heard a case legally described as Robinson v. Midland Bank, Limited. It was a civil action, but such were its ramifications that it involved the nephew of Lieutenant General His Highness Maharaja Sir Pratrap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, a single state in the northernmost part of India. Said The Times...