Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American, British, French, and West German commission is weighing whether to grant a request by Adenauer that Krupp be allowed to keep his multibillion-dollar interests...
Married. Claude Rains, 69, British-born actor; and Agi Jambor, 50, Hungarian immigrant (1947) pianist; he for the third time, she for the second; in West Chester...
Died. Julian Ulrych, 71, quiet, self-effacing, $20.44-a-week London hotel dishwasher, a powerful pre-World War II Polish politician and Cabinet Minister; who fought Russia during World War I, Germany during World War II, Communists after V-day, finally fled to England where he rejected a British pension, said: "One has to accept the bad things of life with the good"; in London...
Died. I.A.R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie, 74, prolific British writer of novels (17), short stories (200-odd), and a charming autobiography titled My Life with George, in which George is her subconscious; of a coronary thrombosis; in Princeton...
...spent his life in a quasi-alchemistic search for "the secret of casting steel," processed more irony than iron in his foundry, the Forge of Good Hope, and died at 39 of dropsy and despair. His son Alfred was later to find and filch the sought-for secret from British forgemasters while posing as a frivolous visiting baron, Herr Schropp. After he set the Essen smokestacks belching, Alfred devoted seven years to casting a cannon in steel instead of the traditional bronze; the weapon later pulverized the French in the six-month...