Word: briton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall Briton, whose air of habitual command betrayed his lineage, arrived last week at Bombay, India. Some weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name...
...tall Briton, one of whose haggard eyesockets still gripped his monocle as might a band of steel, descended at London from a boat train last week and grimly faced the assembled press. "Gentlemen," he rapped, "I hear that I am going to be executed on the day after tomorrow. I shall wait until I ascend the scaffold before saying anything...
Every newspaperman or writer, be he Briton or American, should have a proper respect for exactness and a feeling for the nicely chosen word. Mr. Taylor's criticism, however, is petty haggling to no discernible purpose. TIME'S writers, he says, would get the blue envelope from the average American newspaper editor. Just wouldn't they though! That's one of the reasons TIME is so readable...
Archibald Philip Primrose is now in his 78th year. He was Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. He is the last surviving Earl to have held the Premiership before Britain's gradual democratization rendered that office practically reserved to commoners. He was the first Briton ever to own a horse which won the Derby while its owner was Prime Minister, an altitude of bliss which only British sovereigns who have tried to "win the Derby" and failed can fully appreciate. In 1878 the Times and many another British newspaper listed in slightly over two columns "the more notable wedding presents...
...serious debtor and a smiling creditor-Count Giusseppi Volpi, Finance Minister of Italy and the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Chancellor of the British Exchequer. A sleek, bearded Latin and an expansive, rubicund Briton. The most powerful self-made Italian industrialist, and the most genial onetime First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Such were the two completely antithetical statesmen who sat down to dicker over a settlement of the Anglo-Italian debt, in London, last week. What they said to each other naturally remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were...