Word: british
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worm as slim as a horse hair has sewn a cloak of fear about the misshapen Negroes of St. Kitt's (St. Christopher Island, among the British West Indies), and patched it with deaths. Over the 65 square miles of the island grief croons. Trading ships scurry from the swash of the Caribbean against Basseterre. A sort of pestilence is on the people. Dozens have died. Last week a white man, Dr. J. J. Pawan, bacteriologist, reached there by Pan-American plane from Port of Spain, Trinidad, and found the deaths due to a filariasis...
Decorous dinner-jacketed British fight fans and their evening-gowned ladies assembled last week at the London Stadium Club to witness a charity boxing tournament. Present at the ringside were...
...downstairs dressing room Boxer Carnera flexed his bulging muscles and glowered while an embarrassed manager explained the longstanding British rule that all boxers at amateur bouts must be clothed above the waist...
...think the Thomas statement is simply scandalous!" chirped pretty Miss Florence Underwood, Secretary of the British Women's Freedom League. "Like the old Adam, he is just trying to blame women for everything, even unemployment...
...Booming, bumbling Tom Shaw, one-time weaver, now War Minister, made the Parliamentary bloomer of the week. Trespassing on the fiscal preserves of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden without Cabinet authority, and possibly without knowing what he was doing. Right Honorable Tom blandly remarked that holders of British War Bonds are receiving too high a rate of interest: "They are getting $500,000,000 a year to which they have not the slightest moral right! . . . That is a fact that has got to be faced before this country can be put on its feet again...