Word: british
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete copies of "King Arthur" is kept in the Widener collection. This book, the only replica of which is in the British Museum, is entitled, in full, "The story of the most noble and worthy Kynge Arthur, the which was the fyrst of the worthyes chrysten, and also of his noble and valyaunt knyghtes of the rounde Tablo." A small folio, olive morocco in color, and with gilt edges, this book is beautifully illustrated in the first portion, with fancy wood-cuts...
...Canadian Premier $15,000; British Premier $25,000. *Population...
...tall, halo-headed sire. Perhaps she was repenting an exuberance. Jocularly, one morning, she had greeted the appearance of her father's middle-aged friend Lord Arnold with the cry, "Oh, look at the House of Lords!" Promptly and absurdly they were rumored engaged. Baron Arnold, British Paymaster General, is accompanying the MacDonald party at his own expense, has been mooted as the next British Ambassador at Washington-suspected of being a "Colonel House." Intensely embarrassed, especially by reports that newspapers in his home city, Manchester, were whooping the story, Baron Arnold said: "I wish to deny this...
...horn woke me from my bed And the cry of his hounds, which he oft times led Peel's 'View Haloo!' would awaken the dead Or the fox from his lair in the morning. -CUMBERLAND HUNTING SONG In England and Virginia, Ireland and Ohio-wherever British or U. S. horsemen gather, people remembered that song last week, for cub hunting was over, formal fox hunting was beginning. Bank presidents set their alarm clocks for 5:30 a. m. Valets laid out scarlet coats and white breeches. Stalwart young women wore derby hats at dawn. In Britain sportsmen...
...automobile chugs for every 5.1 persons who walk. In Britain the proportion is 1 to 41.1. Last week British motormen did their best to split the 41, crowd more automobiles on British highways, by opening their annual Automobile Show at Olympia, London's spectacle house. Salient facts: ¶ Ten million dollars worth of automobiles were on view, 148 makes including 37 British, 26 U. S., 19 French. ¶ Cheapest car in the show: the British "Baby" Austin, selling for $631. Fords cost British buyers $826. ¶ Most original car in the show: the Trojan, with engine astern. ¶ Staggering...