Word: briton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thunder & Lightning. Henry Robinson Luce and Briton Hadden were great & good friends who had been to Hotchkiss School and Yale together, had been editors of their undergraduate papers, had been cub newspapermen. While reporters on the late Frank Munsey's Baltimore News, they conceived the newsmagazine idea and set out to found TIME...
Last week every Briton with a radio and the 3,000 odd who own television sets received much more at this service than they expected. In the pinkly flickering tubes of their televisors they could see King George stiffly standing before the Cenotaph in a Field Marshal's khaki-colored greatcoat, beyond him, the British Cabinet in funereal black, beyond them a double row of bluejackets rigidly at attention, behind them the windows of the Home Office where Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mother Mary watched the ceremony. Big Ben bonged eleven times and a sudden dramatic silence blanketed...
...fashionplate, now an antivivisectionist; from her third husband Major Frederic McLaughlin, millionaire coffee importer, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team; charging cruelty, and asking custody of their twelve-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son; in Chicago. Mrs. McLaughlin's first husband and dancing partner, Briton Vernon Castle, was killed in 1918 while instructing U. S. students at a Texas flying school; her second, Capt. Robert E. Treman of Ithaca, N. Y., divorced...
...many a sporting Briton, a sufficient reason for keeping dank Scotland in the Empire is its excellence as a breeding ground for grouse. This year there were the usual troubling reports that heavy February and March snows had scattered the grouse far afield, that coveys had been thinned by starvation and disease. But with the approach of the "Glorious Twelfth," traditional August opening of the shooting season, grouse were reported rising as thickly as ever. Last week on the moors thousands of beaters got into action with white flags, forming semicircles to drive the grouse over the concealed "butts" where...
...sweep on U. S. soil. The apple-cheeked, bespectacled, India-born son of a Methodist missionary, Godfrey Brown trains strictly the year long, made the Cambridge varsity team his freshman year. He is "reading" (majoring in) English and History at Peterhouse, writes sport for various Cambridge undergraduate papers. Speediest Briton at every distance from 100 yds. to a half mile, he rarely strains to see how fast he can run. Last year he was barely beaten by Archie Williams in the 400-metre race at the Olympics, where he anchored Great Britain's victorious 1,600-metre relay team...