Word: londonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greeks plebiscited 758,742 for the Republic and only 325,322 for gorgeous Georgios, still one of the best-dressed men in Europe. He now lives in London, partly on the bounty of George V with whom he often dines, week ends...
...influenza has not, however, abated fear of and interest in this respiratory disease. When the University of Chicago officially announced that its Isidore Sydney Falk had isolated the causative germ, the Streptococcus polymorphous (TIME, Dec. 23), the news spread with the celerity of a political or murder despatch. From London Dr. David Thomson, who has worked on the same problem, said: "Proving that one has discovered the true germ of influenza is in reproducing the disease in man or in animals by this germ in pure cultures . . . this is a very important part of the American's discovery...
...Opening of the Royal Academy's exhibition at London, with a collection of Italian art sent from Italy by order of Dictator Mussolini...
...sable to put on when the wind is chilly. He holds every Polish middle-distance record from 800 to 10,000 metres and last summer beat Nurmi at Warsaw, letting him set the pace and then, as others have done, passing him in the last hundred metres. In London last July he tried to beat all the best Englishmen the same day ard nearly did it. Beavers beat him at four mile and Cyril ("The Great") Ellis at a mile, principally because proud Petkiewicz tried to keep ahead of all competitors throughout each race, wasting his strength by sprinting against...
...even when they arise among such pastel make-believes as Mr. Milne's characters. And though his answers are questionable, Mr. Milne knows how to dramatize his questions. The moral excitements are excellently stirred by Henry Hull and Edith Barrett, while Harry Beresford's vignette of a London bobby is beyond praise...