Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after the first World War, Dr. Walter Johnstone Williams, dentist and British consul in Papeete, Tahiti, acquired the atoll of Tetiaroa . . . Dr. Williams was the only dentist in Papeete for years, and he did quite a business-considering the Polynesians' love for "glitter-work" in their mouths . The royal Pomare family fell in debt to Dr. Williams for gold fillings . . . so they gave him Tetiaroa to clear up the bill...
There is some basis for the alarm which many of the French have evinced at the new program. During the '30's France listened reluctantly to British defence of a strong Germany against the East and paid a higher price than either Britain or the U.S. for doing so. Schuman will find little support in the French Chamber for ratification of the plan by rating the Russian danger over the German today. He must instead defend the success of the Occupation in disinfecting Germany as justification for her return to self-control...
...only solution the British government, which sets the pound limit, can offer is that the men attend English colleges. It points out that every pound taken out of the country further weakens her economic position. This is good economic sense; it is unfortunate that the ideal of student exchange has suffered as a result...
...British government will not change its monetary restrictions, but keeping English students on the other side of the Atlantic is not a satisfactory answer to the problem. Continued cooperation by the University in providing scholarships and finding good jobs for exchange students will insure that its contribution to Anglo-American understanding can keep on going...
...collected in this volume, readers-will find a pretty complete reflection of the Firbank private world, with only the coal and the real estate left out and no throaty constriction to impede the fluent lushness. ¶ Valmouth (1919) is a tale about high-society high jinks in an imaginary British health resort where the salubrious climate assures salacious longevity. The sexy heroine is a brisk 120 years old. ¶ The Flower Beneath the Foot (1923) tells of the unrequited love of a French girl for a royal prince (addressed as "His Weariness"). It is set in an orchidaceous never-never...