Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote of the Cabinet of his bitter personal rival for leadership of the Nationalist Party, youthful Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce (TIME, Sept. 23). This made necessary a General Election called for Oct. 12. Delighted with his disruptive handiwork, Billy Hughes celebrated one night last week by attending at Sydney, Australia, what he said was his first wrestling match...
...Madrid, Bullfighter Sydney Franklin of Brooklyn, N. Y., said that promoters had asked him to fight a bull in Manhattan "without bloodshed." Inquired Spanish critics grimly: "Would the bull keep the rules...
...Last week engineers began to sink drills and explore the substrata of the Hoogly to a depth of 100 feet. Soon a subway will burrow under, connecting the quarters of Howrah and Sealdah. Proud Indians know that today only two cities in the British Commonwealth have subways: London and Sydney...
Birthday. Sydney Farrar, father of Geraldine Farrar; in Ridgefield, Conn. Age: 70. To Father Farrar's party went his daughter and many a retired professional baseball player who had known "Syd" Farrar when he played with the Philadelphia National League team...
Outgoing President William Sydney Thayer, 65, Massachusetts-born, Harvard-taught Baltimore physician and poet, put a valedictory damnation on legislation which seeks to govern "what we may or may not eat or drink, as to how we may dress, as to our religious beliefs or as to what we may or may not read." In an exhortation which without his rising preamble might have sounded crass at an American Medical Convention, he cried: "This is no longer republican government. It is tyranny. In the long run we English-speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation...