Word: britisher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...restaurants where people are eating and drinking. A flower-woman runs out to the corner to see the danger better and a nobleman goes up to his roof for the same purpose. The raid in the fog, brilliantly photographed, is the justification of an unconvincing anecdote about a British aviator (John Garrick) and a waitress (Helen Chandler) in a camp canteen. Best shot: crowds in Whitechapel watching the fight...
Great Britain. Official barometers registered a low mark of 27.5 inches, a low pressure seldom equaled by the worst tropical typhoons. Off the Welsh coast the British destroyer Tormentor, dismantled, was being towed to a shipbreaking yard. The tow rope snapped, the Tormentor and her skeleton crew of four vanished into the storm...
...show-cases is quite resplendent with the characteristic bright reds, blues, and golds of illuminated manuscripts, many of which illustrate typical Christmas scenes such as the nativity. One of the most noticeable of these is "A Booke of Christmas Carols" illuminated from ancient manuscripts in the British Museum. This was edited by Joseph Cundall in London...
Bermuda with its tropic warmth and transported British Christmas cheer is a very pleasant picture to anticipate. But in any clime Christmas itself isn't such a bad idea. With the prospect of his own vacation right before him, the Vagabond is in no mood to moralize about the spirit of Christmas, or anything else, for that matter. But he does feel cheerio about the day, about the whole season. Since that is tantamount to a confession of old fashioned sentimentality, the Vagabond is willing to go the whole ways. He sincerely greets all his friends with...
...Beginnings of the British Empire", Professor Usher, Widener...