Word: londons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Some months ago I was interested in reading a brief description-I believe it was in your "Letters" column-of the correct pronunciation of certain names and places in England. The enclosed clipping from the London Evening Standard, with its "duly authenticated Explanatory Ode" may be of use to those of your readers who are contemplating a visit to these shores...
...Piccadilly London...
Backstage bumpings and thumpings in Washington last week betokened the setting of the scene for U. S. participation in the London Five Power Parley next January. While official performers ran back and forth adjusting their make-up and learning their lines, President Hoover appeared before the curtain on Armistice Day to utter a prolog at the Washington Auditorium...
Stimson's Studies. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson completed a three-week "instruction course" which qualified him as a naval expert for the London conference. His teachers, admirals of the Navy's General Board, called one after another at his office to give lessons in naval equipment, strategy, statistics. It was announced that as a lover of peace, not as a pacifist, would Statesman Stimson lead the U. S. delegation to London...
Diplomat Dawes. Upon the backstage scene appeared Charles Gates Dawes, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. London had altered his standardized attire: a batwing collar replaced the well-known high turndown with V-opening; in place of the famed, florid hand-sewn neckties made by an old friend of his mother, now deceased, was a typically British cravat. He explained: "I've an alibi now. I'm a diplomat...