Word: londonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...architects. Catholic Sir Edwin, 60, designed the Government House in Delhi (India), many memorials, is an eclectic, fastidious craftsman. Anglican Sir Giles, 49, is an ecclesiastical specialist who loves the mossy, shattered abbeys and cloisters of England. In days to come, as they sit in the quiet recesses of London's Athenaeum Club, they may chat about their cathedrals, exchanging theories and compliments. But as their respective shrines rise on the banks of the River Mersey, they cannot help but command the eyes of England as esthetic competitors...
...London's Westminster Cathedral (Catholic) became unique among English edifices last week with the installation of a 185 ft. elevator, similar to those in U. S. skyscraper churches. Before the public was admitted, His Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, entered with the cathedral clergy, rode with dignity up and down...
...Jacob Epstein's weird London sculptures (Rima, Night, etc.) have caused acrid controversy throughout England (TIME, July...
Last week at London, Richard Joshua Reynolds, 23, son of the late founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, etc.), was found guilty of killing a man while drunk and driving his motor car. The court sentenced him to five months' light imprisonment for manslaughter...
Last week at London, Denys Stanley Thomas, Royal Air Force officer, was sentenced to one year hard labor for operating his airplane, while drunk, so erratically that a scared man passenger jumped to his death...