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Word: londoners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less whimsical, but equally sticktuitive are his present clients, who will keep him busy till November. Courier Wagner will then be free to join his wife in London, whence they will repair to Switzerland on their annual winter holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lunatic at Large | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Birthdays. Benito Mussolini, 56; George Bernard Shaw, 83, quietly, in London, England; Henry Ford, 76, quietly, in Dearborn, Mich.; Booth Tarkington, 70, quietly, in Kennebunkport, Me. (Informed that it was Mussolini's birthday, Author Tarkington observed: "I have led a nice quiet life, which is more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. William Robert Bradley, 21, orange-haired Sixth Earl of Craven; and Irene Meyrick, daughter of the late in-and-out-of-jail Mrs. Kate ("Queen of the London Night Clubs") Meyrick. The Earl's gallant, one-legged father caused a newspaper uproar in 1926 by eloping with another earl's wife, Countess ("Moral Turpitude") Cathcart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Most uncomfortable woman in London last week was kindly, grey-haired Mrs. Lucy Macdonald, longtime manager of the staid and starchy Arlington Gallery. Mrs. Macdonald found herself with the season's most sensational art show on her hands; the pictures, she admitted herself, were terrible, and the artist admitted himself that he had palled around with real live U. S. gangsters. This appalling state of affairs came about because she had been too busy to go out to Chelsea and look at the paintings beforehand, and the artist "was so smooth and persuasive that I took a chance. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint-Gunner | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...first autobiographical tome, Carrying a Gun for Al Capone, had England by the ears eight years ago, ran into 17 editions, was translated into nine foreign languages. Five years and one book (I Can't Escape Adventure) later, Bilbo opened a highly successful night spot in London's arty Chelsea, where he assiduously cultivated those in the know. Five months ago he started painting, now does nothing else, often works in his studio for 20 hours at a stretch. It wouldn't surprise him in the least if his fellow-refugee and longtime friend, Haile Selassie, should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint-Gunner | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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