Word: londonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likes the taste of butter "straight" less than His Majesty's bantamweight, peppery Secretary of State for Dominions & Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery. None the less, Mr. Amery let a great deal of butter melt on his short, sharp tongue, the other day in London, tasting samples at the Australian Butter Show. Prizes had been offered by the Orient Steam- Navigation Co., Ltd. (whose packets ply to Australia) for "the best export butter"-one which would still be "best" after the 13,000-mile voyage to England. Each sample had been point-scored when shipped...
...haired, a native Californian. Both his father and mother were physicians. After being graduated from the University of California as a Mechanical Engineer, he studied Architecture at the Paris Beaux Arts and took medals in architecture, mathematics, modeling, free-hand drawing. He was the first foreign member of the London Architecture Club. In 1912 he formed a partnership with Frank J. Helmle of New York...
Helmle & Corbett have raised spires and pediments throughout the East. Most famed is the tan, delicately Gothicized tower of their Bush Terminal office building in Manhattan. In London they thrust up the robust U. S. contours of Bush House among the fragile graces of Christopher Wrenn and Inigo Jones. In Alexandria, Va., they are now building the George Washington Masonic National Memorial...
...Pasty or crudely red faces, bulging shiny foreheads . . . rolling chins, fat wrists . . . [these] women are one of the greatest comments on feminine emancipation ever made." Thus, recently, did a presumably emancipated Londoner write to the London Express describing the subjects of portraits by famed Dutch artists, portraits which had appeared in the Royal Academy's great exhibition of Dutch art (TIME...
From India to Canada came swart, white-bearded Sir Rabindranath Tagore. From London came the British Broadcasting Co.'s Education Director J. C. Stobart. From-Czechoslovakia came interpreters of the famed-"Sokol movement" for national physical education. Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan sent representatives. So did Australia and New Zealand. No U. S. educators were officially present, although two were invited from the Adult Education Association; but their absence in no way diminished the grand manner or the importance of the meeting last week in Victoria and Vancouver of the Canadian National Council of Education...