Word: strand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goelct, W. C. Goodwin, B. J. Harrison, R. W. Hemminger, R. F. Hodges, Mark Hopkins, T. W. Hubbard, J. C. Hubbard, L. Hutchins, T. F. Kane, H. J. Kouffman, E. Martin McAusland G. H. Norris, J. B. Parkerson, J. E. Robinson, F. C. Sidney, E. M. Stillson, B. D. Strand, A. R. Sweezy, J. A. Tilt, W. T. Tower, Norman, Vaughn, W. D. Whitmore, S. M. Williams, D. F. Wolfe...
...some $4,500,000 a year, noted for his lavish entertainments. Last week he arrived in London with a suite of 50 and a retinue of servants numbering at least 20. He and his suite occupied the whole fifth floor (100 rooms) of the Savoy Hotel on the Strand, for which he is said to pay $1,000 a day. Two special Indian cooks prepare his food and a fleet of 20 limousines waits in constant attendance. A new elevator in scarlet and Chinese lacquer was installed for his especial benefit and, by throwing several rooms together, a throne room...
...Lancet. Outside a London newspaper office a crowd gathered last week, at first no more than a small, compact impediment in the current of the Strand's foot passengers, but swelling minute by minute until it bulged, a black protuberance, pulsing with a low, incessant fever and disordering the normal life of the street. Nobody jostled. Men and women stood silent, taken with the sick prescience that infects crowds in the apprehension of some great event -a declaration of war, the birth of a prince...
...suggestive of the cycle through which this and other countries were passing. In the writing, there was a rich personal flavor, informal yet dignified, unhurried but never verbose. Each issue was a monolog by an unprejudiced ruminative man who was as likely to weave into his discourse some bright strand of slang as some fibrous or silken or homespun thread from Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Mark Rutherford, Andrew Marvell...
...commissioned by architects to do 18 statues for a building on the Strand. He supplied 18 heroic nudes in all postures. The public screamed. Epstein remarked : "The Capital of the British Empire is so used to statues in frock coats and trousers that these struck them as brutal truth." He was commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal...