Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belligerent Australian editors boiled at the news that Australia's High Commissioner has become so Anglicized in England, that he now refers to his fellow Australians as "they...
...banqueted with German bomber pilots but were enjoying themselves hugely. They visited Olympic Village, the Colonel taking a sprint around the running track, poking into every corner of the U. S. Olympic Team's quarters, pausing to watch some storks and laughing at the antics of the Australian team's mascot kangaroo...
...victories), arrived at Montreal on her first visit to Canada. A Canadian war pilot, Captain Roy Brown, now head of Canada's General Airways, was officially credited with shooting down Ace von Richthofen. Last week Baroness von Richthofen asserted that her son had been downed by Australian artillery fire as he flew low in a dogfight with Captain Brown...
Everyone, including Mr. Sato, agreed that of course the Lausanne Treaty is to be torn up. Elected chairman of the Conference was Stanley Melbourne Bruce, one of the gallant Australians whom the Turks trounced at Gallipoli. Handsome Mr. Bruce, now High Commissioner of Australia in London, was gravely wounded during the slaughter of his countrymen by the Turks. Last week he asked Dr. Aras to please be considerate about the graves of Australian War dead in excavating for Dardanelles fortifications. This the swarthy, squint-eyed little Turk politely promised, patting the stalwart, pink-cheeked Australian reassuringly on the back...
Blue-eyed, sailor-suited Kelvin Arthur Rodgers, Australian 3-year-old, left a freighter at a New York dock last week for the last lap of a 9,000-mile voyage of life & death. Frisky, unconcerned, he carried in his right lung a 3-in. packing nail which he had gulped down 18 months ago. Unless it came out, Australian doctors agreed, Baby Rodgers' days were numbered. Twice they attempted to remove the nail without a Chevalier Jackson bronchoscope. Both attempts failing, they wrote to Dr. Jackson. He told them to send the child to Philadelphia, that the nail...