Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During the war, the Sultan gave $4,200,000 to the British war effort, did not lose heart even when the Japanese swept down through Johore and captured Singapore. With his wife he swore off liquor until the British reconquest. When Johore was "liberated" in 1945, the joyous Sultan cried out: "Now we can break our vow. Open the champagne...
When Singapore's British society behaved stuffily toward his show-girl fiancee, the Sultan struck back by firing all the Britons in his service and planting shrubs on the fairways and greens of the golf course used by the sahibs, which was on his property. But the romance faltered, and Lydia Hill, wearing a large diamond ring, returned to London and was killed in the blitz. "I am heartbroken," said the Sultan, who had followed her to Britain. A few days later he met reddish-blonde Rumanian Marcella Mendl and married her, explaining: "It was love at first sight...
...Leslie Weatherhead, past president of Britain's Methodist Conference, came out in favor of legalizing mercy killing. General Practitioner Dr. Maurice L. Millard, 58, whose father founded England's Euthanasia Society 22 years ago, had touched off a debate on the subject in the British press with his bland statement in a Rotary Club speech that he had recently given a suffering patient, near death from cancer, a lethal dose of a drug, after she had "made her peace with God" and settled her affairs. "What I did . . . was to give her a drug to keep her asleep...
Part of the slippage was due to the fact that U.S. gold, priced by law at $35 per ounce, plus a handling charge of one-fourth of i%, is slightly under the price on the British free market. The difference would encourage foreigners with dollars or other hard currency that they wanted to turn into gold to buy in the U.S. rather than in Britain. The British government itself was also buying U.S. gold again for its reserves. During the early part of this year, Britain stopped buying to accumulate $200 million borrowed from the International Monetary Fund...
Married. Julie Andrews, 23, peaches-and-cream-cheeked British star of My Fair Lady and The Boy Friend, whose airy musicomedy elegance showed through both cockney grime and flapper apparel; and Scene Designer Tony Walton, 24, a childhood sweetheart; in Weybridge, England...