Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belgium were all actually canceled by the terms of the settlements made with the U. S., but that these agreements in no way affected peacetime or commercial loans. General Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement, talked, meanwhile, with Britishers in London concerning Anglo-American anti-smuggling cooperation. Charles S. Dewey, another Assistant Secretary, is in Berlin for pleasure and economic investigations...
...quick as a girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak was in sober truth her realm...
Before the conference of Anglo-American historians, meeting last week in London, went Premier Stanley Baldwin of Britain to welcome them and to enunciate a Tory view of historical writing that caused a flurry of international comment, mostly favorable. Said Mr. Baldwin: "I am quite sure that if you try to bring up youth on entirely unbiased history he will never read it. I prefer my own method of getting a vivid picture first and correcting it afterwards; because, generally speaking, you do not want to be fair until you are grown up. ... I think that to try to make...
...profound is the spiritual veneration of Italians for their quite literally "beloved Papa" (the Pope) that, where only the transient material world is concerned, a jest may be thus bandied between poet and Pope without creating the scandal which would ensue in Anglo-Saxon lands. During Holy Year (1925) carefree Latins were to be seen daily flinging banana skins and chocolate wrappers upon the floor of St. Peter's, and greeting the Pope when he appeared with just such excited squeals and shrieks as a large family of happy children bestow upon their temporal father...
...founding of "Estes Park" (Col.) in 1875 caused him to be ridiculed in London as the "Yanko-maniac." As a youth he twice served the London Daily Telegraph as war correspondent (Anglo-Abyssinian and Franco-Prussian wars), shot big game with "Buffalo Bill" and many another, soldiered, yachted, steeplechased. Facially he resembled Wilhelm...