Word: belgravia
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Templer is the perfect picture of a British regular soldier: an austere, stiff-backed autocrat in uniform-and in mufti a bit of a dandy. He lived elegantly in London's Belgravia and became a connoisseur of claret, crystal and ijth century books. But in the company of his old war comrades he could relax. Says one: "He'll bring along an elderly fellow in civilian attire and introduce him to the officers as 'You remember Sergeant So-and-So. He and I fought together at So-and-So.' Sometimes if you happen to mention...
Black-Robed Benchers. Awesomely, like so many legal acolytes of Death, six black-robed benchers of Gray's Inn came for the great jurist's body. He should not lie in state at his house in dignified Belgravia but among the cloistered inns of court, snug in the chapel of his own Gray...
...Monds, more than the other leading English Jewish families-the Rothschilds, Isaacs, Samuels, Sassoons, Montagus-love to entertain. To their city house on Lowdnes Square, Belgravia, London, close to both Buckingham Palace and Hyde. Park, they invite politicians, artists,*writers, merchants, notables of every profession...
...Joseph Schildkraut, Bessie Love). At the Hippodrome, onetime magic home of elephants, clowns, high-divers; recent realm of vaudeville; now frankly succumbed to the cinema as well, is No. 4,000 in the endless series of mythical kingdom romances. This one recounts the adventures of the Crown Prince of Belgravia, who gives up his heritage so that he may marry a U. S. citizeness, only to learn that she is in reality the grand duchess he was to have been forced to wed. The whole affair is safely routine with one outstanding exception. For Rudolph Schildkraut, father of the film...
...four-handed racket match for the championship of the English universities was played recently at Belgravia near London, between Oxford and Cambridge men, and Cambridge won the match by four games to one, making a total of 60 aces against 22. The score in 27 matches now stands 14 for Cambridge and 13 for Oxford. From 1869 to 1875 Oxford won seven times in succession, and from 1876 to 1883 Cambridge has had a series of uninterrupted victories. The single-handed game was also won by Cambridge by a score of three games to one. Twenty-six single handed matches...