Word: england
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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South Sea Rose (Fox). As a French girl brought up in the South Seas and taken to New England by a skipper who marries her for her money, Lenore Ulric talks the same baby gutturals she used a couple of weeks ago in Frozen Justice, but the meaning of her husky drawling voice does not depend on words and is the same in any language. The story is an aimless, overkeyed triangle. Best shot: a simple-minded jazzbo having a fit when checked in his efforts to get near the South Sea Rose...
...Department of Commerce's trade scouts?56 men in two classes, commercial attaches and trade commissioners. At Washington their reports are assembled and presented in a periodical pamphlet called What the World Wants. There it may be found this week that Rosario, Argentina, will buy buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour at Lourengo Marquez. Portuguese East Africa; fertilizer grinders at Batavia; sneakers and sporting wear at Mukden; fountain pens at Calcutta; corsets...
...York market break with great and garrulous glee, Royal Mail's tumble was merely another incident in the series of misfortunes which have over taken the English investment market. Although in the U. S. prices broke, earnings of U. S. companies have so far been maintained.But in England poor trade conditions coupled with belief that the Labor government is financially incompetent, seem to indicate the culmination of the long established drift of the London market away from its position as world's leader. "Home Rails," long considered a prime investment, have seen the cycle bring Depression, as have Industrials. British...
...Buenos Aires, Statesmen Poincare and Irigoyen will undoubtedly enjoy comparing notes on a subject about which many men of their age, including many of the world's rulers, have personal experience: King George of England, President Doumergue of France, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. King Haakon of Norway. King Fuad of Egypt...
...light it was, was a wholly quaint and laura-jean-shian thing, a smattering or perhaps, better yet, compote of hearsay culture as well as utility . . . plus gentility that was innate but colored by spindrift and spume concerning how ladies and gentlemen in some fabulous land of gentility (England principally, I believe; the old South next) conducted themselves...