Word: briton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Briton Hadden, 31, of Manhattan, co-founder of TIME; of a streptococcus infection of the blood stream which became fatal when endocarditis developed.* Ill since early last December, he fought strongly against the infection's spread. Aided by blood transfusions every 48 hours he seemed to hold his own and even, for a week after his birthday (Feb. 18), to make progress. Death came suddenly at 4 a. m., Feb. 27, in the Brooklyn Hospital...
...After more than a year, with idea firm in mind, with friendly valuable advice from great and good friends, with what only they deemed sufficient capital,* and with a gradually assembled group of enthusiasts,† they issued, under date of March 3, 1923, the first Newsmagazine-TIME. Thereafter to Briton Hadden success came steadily, satisfaction never...
Hundreds of messages have been received by the publishers of TIME since BRITON HADDEN died. The expressions printed here reveal the appreciation of his character by a group of men who knew him and who had already come to understand his genius...
...really strong? Granted that the British taxpayer is paying $1,250,000,000 a year, the French $800,000,000, and the German only $600,000,000, even so, said Dr. Schacht, it is paradoxically true that Germany is the most heavily taxed country of all. Reason: while the Briton's and the Frenchman's tax money is spent at home, to his indirect enrichment, the German's tax payments are largely wrested from the Fatherland in the form of Reparations thus impoverishing instead of enriching, as all other nations...
...course famed and lovable H. G. Wells has not written any "Book on Loneliness." The jest went deeper than that. Its sly allusion-perfectly understood by almost every Briton, except innocent old ladies-was to a new and sensationally suppressed novel, The Well of Loneliness, by Miss Radclyffe Hall...