Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...REGRETS THAT YOUR USUALLY WELL-INFORMED MAGAZINE IS SO IGNORANT OF ENGLISH POLITICS AS TO PRINT SECOND AND LAST PARAGRAPHS OF "THE TEMPEST & THE TOSSED" IN JUNE 14 ISSUE [calling the House of Lords "little more than a debating society filled with crotchety, beef-pink, ultraconservative old men"]. YOUR LONDON EDITOR SHOULD ATTEND LORDS DEBATE AND MODERNIZE HIS FACTS...
...Like This. In London, Lord Mancroft entered a Conservative Party meeting, expressed regret that he could not speak as scheduled because "My house is on fire." In Nashville, Julius Frankie Robinson explained to police why he had stolen his son from his ex-wife's sister: "To give him a bath...
...When London's swank Savoy got into trouble in the 1890s (its stock slumped from ?5 to a few shillings), the management asked the partners for help. By lavish spending on gaudy entertainment (for one party, they flooded the main dining room, served dinner on gondolas to the music of imported Venetian gondoliers), they boomed the value of the stock to ?20 a share in three years. This and other triumphs prompted Ritz's millionaire friends to back his fondest dream-a hotel of his own in Paris, which would be "the summum of elegance." Ritz himself...
...Ritz. His intense efforts to please his patrons led to a breakdown in 1911, death seven years later. After that, his personally trained assistants ("the Academicians") and Mimi ("counselor to the management") saw to it that the Ritz tradition was maintained. Though Ritz had had an active hand in London's Carlton and a dozen other big European hotels, and had less actively sponsored the tri-continental Ritz-Carlton group, no other hotel ever achieved the rococo elegance of his Paris pride...
Elementary. In New London, Conn., the Griswold Country Club solved the lost-golfball problem: it hired a pack of pointers and English setters and treated the balls with pheasant scent...