Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aspire to climb The social stair, be warned in time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis. Who'd blame a self-respecting...
...private soldier in a shiny blue serge suit stood in the House of Lords last week and, grinning, plumped himself down on the woolsack, the oblong red cushion. traditional seat of the Lord Chancellor of Britain, and, next to the throne, the most honorable sit-spot in the empire...
Chauffeurs, colonels, farmers, and a few noble lords, laughed and patted him on the back. Three hundred and twenty-one holders of the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military award, had gathered to dine with Edward of Wales, were waiting to walk in to tables laid in the royal gallery. In age they ranged from Lieut. Colonel James Henry Reynolds, 86, who won his cross fighting Zulus in 1879, to Sergeant Thomas Ricketts, 28, who won his when 17 on the Western Front. So poor are many V. C.'s that H. R. H. had had his invitations...
After a meal during which Britain's heroes studiously avoided the topic of warfare, talked of their families, their businesses and the Lord Mayor's show which they had just witnessed (see p. 26), Edward of Wales rose to speak. Said...
...discuss the Anglo-U. S. War debt situation with Mr. Hoover, and that he has not given the President any assurance that in wartime the British navy will respect the right of U. S. merchantmen to freedom of the seas. Since there has been general uneasiness in Britain on the latter point, Mr. MacDonald's straightforward answer cleared the air, enhanced his popularity, banished suspicion that he is an impractical Socialist capable of bartering away Britannia's right to rule the wave...