Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office on a trivial issue. The Liberals contend that the Labor Government was to blame, because it refused to "face an impartial inquiry into the circumstances which led to the withdrawal of the prosecution" against Editor Campbell. The Conservatives most heartily concurred with the Liberal contention. The Times of London said...
...House of Commons was thereupon summoned to the House of Lords to hear the Royal Assent given to the bill, the full title of which is the Irish Free State (Confirmation of Agreement) Bill. The measure became a law of the land, a law by which the Government at London is empowered to appoint a commissioner for Northern Ireland on the Boundary Commission...
Then from London up spoke a sound, corporeal Sir George. Stealing a phrase from Mark Twain, he said that reports of his death had been much exaggerated. In answer to the Germans, he replied...
...longer will it be necessary for admirers of this eminent painter's queer, gnarled and gnomish trees and ladies in old-fashioned caps and flounces, to seek his work in the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, the Tate Gallery (London), the Municipal Collections of Vienna and Barcelona. They may be found wherever soap is likely to be sold or advertised...
George Bernard Shaw arose, last week, before a gathering of Art students in London. Said he: "The King of England is obliged to go to the Goodwood races, to the football cup ties and to shake hands with the players. But he is not expected to go to the Royal Academy. It would be a nine days' sensation if he made a practice of shaking hands with artists...