Word: londonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most critics unrivaled for its flawless finesse...
Died. Col. Agar Adamson, 65, Wartime (1916-18) commander of the famed Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry ("Princess Pats"); in London; after an operation...
...dancing, boxing dog. From New Jersey went Buster, 18-month-old chimpanzee who drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby, the Hempel pomeranian who has crossed the Atlantic twelve times, who once flew from London to Paris to visit his veterinarian. Louis Ruhe, famed Manhattan animal importer, sent many a truckload of his wares including bears, warthogs, porcupines. When the Ruhe trucksters unloaded one slatted crate its inmate, a zebra, kicked, crashed its head against the slats, stared wildly, piteously about. The ever-watchful American...
...Dishonor. Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins, wife of the newly inducted President of the University of Chicago (TIME, Nov. 25), had her appendix out in Chicago. Mrs. Theodore Hoover, sister-in-law of President Hoover, had her appendix out in Palo Alto, Calif. Crown Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark, visiting London, had an abscess in his throat lanced, was unable to go to Sandringham to see his second cousins George V & Queen Mary. Col. & Mrs, Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Arizona air-explorations were told of in the December World's Work (non- fiction monthly) by one Edward Moffat Weyer...
...Schomburg of their whereabouts, believing him Ibrahim's wise but unappreciated doctor. Thus there is suspense, leading to a pathetic, human, amusing climax that no reviewer should reveal. Author Dekobra has motored all through Europe, tiger-hunted in the Congo, canoed up the Nile, translated Daniel DeFoe, Jack London and O. Henry into French. Famed in 15 languages is his novel The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, in which a character reputedly derived from Diana Duff-Cooper, famed English beauty, has very improbable adventures...