Word: strands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From another part of London, politically opposite to the great Strand newspaper, came a girlish outburst of indignation from Labor's only woman M. P., Ellen Wilkinson. She said that the women of the Labor Party "felt pretty sick when they read nonsense like that talked by Ethel Snowden in America and added that she would like to apply to Mrs. Snowden the epithet "The woman who wants slapping...
Thereafter, still silk-hatted, the Americans were escorted down the Strand to the Inner Temple, where guarded doors swung open upon Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn and all that is sedate and venerable in the Law. Cases were in progress. Little knots of men grouped about the English hosts, listening to elucidations of unfamiliar procedure. Bewigged, begowned, Lord Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Gordon Hewart) and Justice Darling ruled their benches in the Courts of Appeal, Justice Horridge his divorce court. In one ;room, there arose an intricate question involving U. S. law. Experts among...
...carriage doors flew open, a host of grinning Americans and Canadians flocked out. The fidgeters, English reception committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, sprang into action, shook hands, in every direction, loaded the grinners into a fleet of taxis, chugged off with them toward the Strand to the 20th Annual International Advertising Convention...
Booth Tarkington's--"Monsieur Beaucaire" has been revived in London and is now playing at the Strand Theatre with Gerald Lawrence in the title role. The play is especially well-received by old-timere with whom it has long been a favorite. Although this slight but exquisite story was published twenty-five years ago and has seen a complee revolution in literary styles, Mr. Tarkington's publishers, Doubleday, Page & Company, report that it continues to be one of the most popular of his books and seems to remain uninfluenced by time and literary fashions...
...commons. With the loss of common rights went the ability to keep a family cow; and when milk was denied him the Englishman turned to tea. Be that as it may; the addition to tea does seem the distinguishing mark of the Englishman, just as the red strand once identified all the cordage of the Royal Navy...