Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British critic and playwright Kenneth Tynan will arrive at Harvard tomorrow for a three day visit at Winthop House. During his stay, he will meet informally with Winthrop undergraduates and Faculty members interested in drama. Tynan is currently drama critic for the New Yorker, while on a year's leave from his regular reviewing duties for the London Observer...
Marianne Purdy plays the wonderful worldly-wise French head-mistress with charm, coyly leads millionaire Percival Browne (David Pursley) about the stage with a wave of her fan. Mr. Pursley's Percival is British to the hilt, dry and witty and essentially comic, and in some scenes it's a wonder he can keep a straight face...
...behalf of the Federation. . . ." When Adenauer becomes President he may attempt to expand this power beyond its present ceremonial limits. If he can live long enough, he might transform the Presidency into more than a formal role, and alter the Bonn Republic to a system which lies between the British and the American...
Collision Course, by Alvin Moscow, about the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, about the torpedoing of the British liner Athenia, are memorable accounts of nights to remember...
...none could see the irony that lay ready to bud-namely, that having achieved all they could desire in the way of puritanical austerity, the British would endure it only for a few years before inviting the sacrificed King's unsaintly son to ascend the throne as Charles II and enjoy his own again...