Word: curzon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about selling it. Meanwhile in the U.S., now from a New York office and eventually from branches in other major cities, it will back its British clients with market research, advertising and promotion. Next month Lion & Unicorn will bring a couple of nubile nobles, Lady Mary Gaye Georgiana Curzon and her sister, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Anne Curzon,* to New York to model mod clothes. The com pany hopes to sell $15 million worth of goods during its first 15 months, earning commissions...
...Granddaughters of Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, who was fifth Earl of Howe and one of Britain's best-known racing drivers between the Wars, and distant cousins of George Nathaniel Curzon, first Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, who as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1920 devised the Curzon Line as a boundary between Russia and Poland...
...stroll past any building site, a visit to any factory gives the real clue to the country's troubles." One day last week, the sun poked through the haze above Mayfair just after the "elevenses" tea break and just before the lunch break. All work on a Curzon Street building stopped as the construction gang peeled off shirts and spread-eagled across the masonry for a sun tan. On English docks from Liverpool to Southampton, 14-man gangs of stevedores can be found idly following the forklift trucks that replaced them. When a British company proposed to check...
Londoners are among the world's sportiest gamblers, willing to wager on everything from the greyhounds to whether or not the sun will shine (a hazardous bet, since the daily mean is only 4.16 hours of sunshine in the city). The Clermont Club, Crockford's and the Curzon House Club are the kings of the $3 billion-a-year fever, reigning over tables at which men and women do not gamble because they are on holiday, as they might at Deauville or Baden, but as part of their casual daily entertainment. It is not exceptional to see players...
...Ankara, and formed a new Turkish government with himself at its head. Within three years he had smashed an Anglo-Greek army of more than 100,000 men in two magnificent campaigns in Anatolia, recaptured Smyrna* and swung north to the Bosporus, toppled the British government, and forced Lord Curzon to talk Turkey on Kemal's terms...