Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Margot Asquith contributed an article* to a London magazine, took some potshots at British political heroes past and present: Of Lloyd George, ex-Premier. "Lloyd George loves a crowd more than himself. He has more ideas and treats them with fickle and impartial humor." Of Lord Curzon, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. "His natural self made many friends in his youth, but for some unknown reason he grafted onto that brilliant and hospitable self a certain ceremonious nonconducting personality which estranges intimacy and his sense of humor-which is of the highest quality-never has been focused...
...memory of Joseph Hodges Choate '52, the Harvard Club of New York in 1919 established the Choate Fellowship for a British subject studying at Harvard, and it is to be held this year by L. H. Titterton of London, a graduate of Cambridge University in 1923, who is now continuing for a second year his graduate studies in the Harvard Theological School...
...that, while thoroughly English, has a touch of color in world-grouping that makes it richer than much purely native writing? Arlen was born on the Danube and moved to England when he was quite young. He went to school fitfully, was educated partly in Switzerland, came back to London and was exceedingly gay. He danced, dined, traveled and indulged in some quiet writing. That he takes his writing lightly is not true. He has been known to destroy a novel that he did not believe to be up to his standard. Only think of that?destroying a novel...
...consequence, after these many wanderings, Mr. Ford has decided to locate his main British factory in Dagenham, ten miles from the heart of London. The new plant will employ 10,000 men, will turn out 500 cars a day. It will be the largest automobile plant in the British Isles, although small compared with existing Ford factories in Detroit...
Sued for Divorce. The Duke of .Westminster, in London, by the Duchess. The charge: cruelty and misconduct. Sued for Divorce. G. Hall Roosevelt, brother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Mrs. Roosevelt's charges were kept secret...