Word: britons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...established him convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable only in provincials from Idaho and Wisconsin...
This sect is headed in the U.S. by Archbishop W. H. Francis, with headquarters in Chicago. It traces its episcopal lineage to the Ancient Church of the Netherlands, founded in the Seventh Century by a Briton, Saint Willibrord. Its modern strength dates from 1870, when there acceded to it many Roman Catholic bishops who could not agree to the doctrine of papal infallibility promulgated and accepted by the Vatican Council just interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. Old Catholics insist on the peerage of the bishops, and further object to the stringently monarchial system of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Take it off!" roared a bull-necked Briton...
...morning last week Albert, Duke of York, hunting with his brother Edward, Prince of Wales, spurred like a true royal Briton after the ruddy wisps of a bedraggled fox-brush...
...That in other countries labor works eight, nine and ten hours a day against the Briton's seven...