Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthusiastic squash player, it is expected that he will use the court an hour or so each morning. He will find in William Bryant, the attendant in charge, an old acquaintance, with whom he played frequently some years ago, on the courts at the Bath Club in London...
...Challenge. When the Shamrock IV trailed the Resolute across the line in the last of the 1920 yacht races for the America's Cup, sportsmen who stared at one another amid the din of the whistle, cheers and salutes?sportsmen who met afterward in London clubs, in Paris bars, in Manhattan cafeterias? asked, rather incredulously than inquisitively: "Will he [Sir Thomas Lipton] challenge again?" Last week, this question was answered. Arriving in the U. S., Sir Thomas said that he would challenge. True, certain formalities must be executed first. Even now international yachtsmen are holding in London a congress...
...common stock of 18 hotels, most of which it also operates itself. The other company is the Bowman-Biltmore Corporation, which controls the Biltmore, Ansonia, Commodore, Murray Hill and Belmont Hotels in Manhattan; the Biltmore Hotels in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Providene and Havana ; the Hotel Griswold at New London; the Belleview in Bellair, Fla. and the Westchester -Biltmore Country Club...
Married. Miss Elsie Kipling, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to one Captain George Bambridge, British diplomatic attache at Brussels; in London. Mr. Kipling gave his daughter away. The reception took place at the home of Stanley Baldwin, onetime Prime Minister, cousin of Mr. Kipling...
Died. Lizzie Hudson Collier, 60, retired actress; in Manhattan. She was leading woman for Joseph Jefferson, Nat C. Goodwin, Henry Miller. In her early days, she starred in the productions of her uncle, James W. Collier scored hits in The Lights O'London and Storm Beaten...