Word: briton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Briton Robert Gittings' contribution to the Keats shelf is a lively study of Keats through the year that began Sept. 21, 1818−"the most amazingly creative year that any English poet has achieved." Within that year Keats turned out, among other poems, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, the Ode to Autumn, the Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian...
First to get a peek at the gallery were an American and a Briton, each of whom had bought more than $14,000 worth of Farouk's stamp collection. The American marveled: "Boy, this is certainly some collection of dirt!" Mused the Englishman: "I cannot understand why the monarch, who was surrounded by so much that was desirable, found pleasure in such obscenity." Meanwhile, four city fathers of Venice demanded that Farouk be kicked out of his Italian exile because he offends "national dignity and morality...
...always," said Briton Mosley, "we are absolutely loyal to our crown...
...literate Briton, who shrinks from the bombastic, recoils even more sharply from the banal. Last week Punch blandly listed "for convenient reference . . . some of the telling images included" in a speech by Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton...
...Americans and one Briton made a shabby showing last week as they received the press in the "Peace Pagoda" at Panmunjom. They were poor trophies for any ideology. Twelve had previously earned the contempt of their fellow prisoners by acting as camp informers for their Red masters. Two were marijuana smokers, another was homosexual. Their average age was 23½ more than half came from broken or unhappy homes...