Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years past such a made-to-order opportunity to spread dissension would have brought the Soviets galloping to the scene with hot pronunciamentos and threats. And, in fact, Moscow did nothing to lessen Asian strains last week by sending a bristling note to London accusing the British of trying to draw neutral Cambodia "under foreign influence." But at the height of last week's festivities...
Macmillan rode to triumph on a wave of British prosperity coupled with a foreign policy calling for forthright dealing with the Soviet Union on H-bomb and other problems...
...landscape like shacks in a gold-rush town, come tuberculosis patients from all over the world. How many fail to return is suggested by the popular nickname of the place: "the cemetery of Europe." In this macabre mountain spot appears the novel's hero: Paul Davenant, a British World War II veteran, lately a Cambridge student, now sick and broke. He is a charity case who, with many others, is supported by an international student association at a sanatorium called Les Alpes. Davenant hopes, as do all the patients, that Les Alpes is only an interlude, a place where...
...frolic and philosophize. In a graphic, day-by-day account of the exile years, Historian Ralph Korngold reveals the constant bickering and backbiting of the Napoleonic entourage. Napoleon himself, argues Korngold, may have been hounded to a premature death by the erratic restrictions and petty cruelties of the British governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, a fussy, indecisive simpleton...
Lowe had the mail thrown on Napoleon's table, Napoleon barred his doors and threatened to make a corpse of any British officer who broke them down. None did. While the British themselves were spending ?250,000 a year to guard Napoleon, Lowe was ordered to cut Bonaparte's household from ?18,000 to ?8,000. Napoleon promptly had his table silver pounded into a shapeless mass, weighed and sold openly in town. Vindictively Lowe restricted Napoleon to a shadeless plain for horseback riding, and forbade him to enter his own garden after dusk...