Word: wembley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open carriage the King and Queen, accompanied by Prince Henry, drove from Buckingham Palace to Wembley Park, attended by the four Indian orderly officers. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the roads, cheering madly...
...upon a golden dais, surrounded by brilliantly uniformed troops, uniformed Cabinet Ministers, representatives from every part of the Commonwealth, Privy Councillors, high ecclesiastics, Ambassadors and Ministers, Their Majesties listened to the Duke of York's speech in which, as Chairman, he asked the King to open the second Wembley Exhibition...
Professor J. L. Coolidge with his family selected England to while away the summer months. He was a visitor at the Wembley Exposition and viewed the Henley Regatta during his sojourn, Professor Coolidge has just put in the hands of the Oxford University Press a technical book called "The Introduction to Mathematical Probability", which he believes will make its appearance in late winter...
...Preston, Eng., a nervous wreck crawled into his bed, refused to communicate with newspaper reporters. This wreck was Maj. Arnold Wilson, promoter of the light heavyweight fight between Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul, and "Basking" Jack Bloomfield, of England, in Wembley Stadium (TIME, Aug. 11). Reasons for the Major's breakdown were that his balance sheet showed a loss of some ?12,000; that Tom Gibbons, sailing for the U. S., had instructed attorneys to collect a missing ?8,061 of ?10,000 promised him by the Major: and his friends...
...Wembley Stadium and some 60,000 Britons basked beneath a cloudless August sky. Out in the centre of 26 the arena, on a platform hedged with ropes, a creature with a "splendidly white skin and a figure that would suggest a Greek god to a woman novelist," lay flat upon the canvas and basked with them...