Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Members of Parliament perform in public as entertainingly as nimble-witted James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in charge of Britain's knottiest problem, Unemployment. Parliament's best contract bridge player, the Rt. Hon. Lord Privy Seal is also a notable after-dinner speaker, with a fund of Rabelaisian anecdote that is the envy of many. Last week, just returned from Canada, he spoke long and wittily at the 40th anniversary banquet of the British Printers' Union, and to him listened a colleague - Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts, Minister of Pensions. When it came time...
...Malta gives Britain virtual command of the Mediterranean. Lately, Fascist and Maltese editors have been hoarsely agitating for the return of Malta to Italy. Last week, over the signature of Friend Lord Strickland an order was issued which 1) Forbade circulation of any newspapers or pamphlets containing anti-British or anti-Strickland propaganda. 2) Imposed penalties of three years imprisonment "on those who help enemies of His Majesty in whatever way, or conspire against the Maltese government," with two years imprisonment "for those who incite others against the government...
Quick to criticize this move were English businessmen, struggling to maintain the slow revival of British industry, for a higher rate means higher credit charges. On the other hand London bankers, nervous over the long and steady drain of gold from England, saw in the bank's announcement the only possible way of bolstering the gold reserve, down ?20,000,000 this year and now ?17,000,000 below the irreducible minimum of ?150,000,000, set by the Cunliffe Currency Commission...
Died. James Rosedale Wadel Ward, 103, linguist, physician, diplomat, onetime private secretary to Empress Eugenie of France; in Manhattan. He spoke 21 languages, seven dialects, was with explorer Sir Henry Norton Stanley in Africa. Upon his father's death (age: 106) Mr. Ward succeeded him as British consul in Palestine...
Many Waters. It is a favorite axiom of dramatists that you never can tell what anguish has moulded the calm faces on the avenues. Monckton Hoffe, a British playwright, has for some time been demonstrating this fact in London with Many Waters, which permits you to live through the years with a little architect, James Barcaldine, and his pleasant wife. So tranquil are the Barcaldines that a theatrical impresario cites them as the sort of people who like twinkling artificial entertainment because their own lives are so fatuously real...