Word: britons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bewildered by this announcement, many a Briton could lay hands on an old copy of Britannia, and jerk it open to the index he would read...
...said, last month, what a shame it was that Mr. Houghton had resigned as Ambassador (TIME, Oct. 8) and sailed for New York, to stand for one of the Senatorial seats from that state as a Republican. When the Republican candidate was elected President of the U. S., casual Britons supposed that Mr. Houghton must have been elected too, and that they had seen the diplomatic last of him. But instead he was defeated, and so he was back in London last week as Ambassador-and so a banquet really had to be arranged. By some Briton's happy...
...have no personal interest in the matter; but my wife's brother is one of King George's famous "Coldstream Guards," and I would not like to think of such a fine young fellow as a "Britishman." I realize that "Englishman" is too narrow a term, and "Briton" is as bad as writing "Frenchie" instead of "Frenchman." Still I believe that a better word than "Britishman" can be coined. What is really needed, however, is some word which will describe we citizens of the Dominions who are not Britishmen, at all. We "Canadians" are fortunate in our name...
When grilled by counsel for Scotland Yard as to how he, as a father, could possibly justify such an attitude, Mr. Savidge made a sturdy, forthright reply which could only have come from a lower class Briton who knows that he may never aspire even to the rank of gentleman...
Thus did a seven-year-stickler for tradition speak amuck, at last, shattering a precedent which was established when Speaker Charles Shaw Lefevre was created Viscount Eversley by Queen Victoria in 1857.* Perhaps only once before has John Henry Whitley broken with tradition. In 1921 he was the first Briton ever to take the Speaker's Chair after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker...