Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the Center in the past nine months (to attend seven features alone) have traipsed 8,200,300 visitors, roundly enough to populate London, Paris and Manhattan...
...LONDON--Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that Great Britain must be prepared to cope with a fleet of 100 German U-boats in a "long and unrelenting struggle" on the high seas to protect British merchant shipping...
...Todd doesn't seem to have the courage of his convictions. For instance, after whooping up the "Three Little Maids" red hot out of a ladies' seminary with a gorgeous syncopated score and a crew of jitterbugs in the best traditions of Harlem's Savoy, if not the London Savoy, he promptly repents his sins and returns to the original G. & S. script for a while. Heaven forbid that any criticism should be smeared on the original, but it did sound pretty dull. It's too bad that Mr. Todd couldn't bury his conscience deep enough to let Charles...
Office in London; the Foreign Office appealed to Ambassador Joe Kennedy. Resourceful Joe sent a cable direct to General Motors building at the World's Fair. A pressagent there called Lady Baldwin at the Waldorf (cost, 5?), told her to come right out, he'd see she was well taken care...
...first 250 pages are dull as dishwater-a long-winded genealogy of Havelock Ellis's ancestors (healthy, middle-of-the-road sea captains, churchmen, businessmen, who "neither rise nor fall"), of his sheltered childhood, of his innocent young manhood as a schoolteacher in Australia, medical student in London, platonic lover of Olive Schreiner (The Story of an African Farm), who called him "my Soul's wifie." At that time, Ellis candidly confesses, he was 5' 10½" tall, weighed 150 Ibs., had a 23-in. mesocephalic head, an unusually high instep, a long great toe, "scented cheeks...