Word: briton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within five minutes the pandemonium was such that a disgusted Briton in the gallery hurled his hat down upon the floor of the House, exclaiming: "Shut up, you bloody fools!" Oddly enough, this quieted the tumult; but as it subsided crippled Philip Snowden grinned upon Expert Samuel, and remarked: "I do not envy the Financial Secretary when he meets the convalescent Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Watched and cheered while Vice President Dawes presented the Daytona Beach trophy to Capt. Malcolm Campbell, motor racing Briton...
...order to restore order; that in Calcutta a mob of 10,000 students hurled brickbats and battled with police and soldiers who did not fire; and that throughout India numerous instances were reported in which the automobiles of British private citizens were attacked and partially smashed, though no Briton was reported killed...
David Lloyd George. Grief had welled up in every loyal Briton's heart, and with good cause. The Empire was laying to rest her greatest soldier, the Scotchman who commanded all her armies in France from 1915 until the final victory, Field Marshal Earl Haig (TIME...
...Deserter Hargreaves. He, lucky, strode forth a free man from the French prison at Clairvaux. During debate on this matter in the Commons, last week, irate members recalled two recent instances in which British rights were flaunted in the U. S. At Denver, Col., one A. K. Orr, peaceful Briton, was held for 17 days by the police without a charge having ever been preferred against him. Furthermore, on the U. S. steamer Manatawny, it was alleged a British steward, one Fred Thomas, was recently chained to the deckrail and flogged. In neither case has "satisfaction"-ever dear to Britons...