Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard, into Yale. So young Laski went on to Harvard, where he was liked no better. When the brash Briton spoke up for the cops in Boston's 1920 police strike, the Harvard Lampoon devoted an entire issue to an exposé of "this propagandist in our midst." The flaming red cover showed Laski as a socialist saint (see cut). A cartoon showed the socialist Day of Judgment with Professor Laski surrounded by human freaks, casting better-dressed citizens (Harvard men, no doubt) into outer darkness...
...American, a Russian and a Briton, conferring in Moscow, had agreed on what to do about German reparations. Last week their plan was ready for the Big Three at Potsdam (see above...
Last May, at a Church of England convocation, the assembled bishops deliberated for half a day, eventually decided to approve ten new categories of in-law marriages. With Church of England blessing, a Briton may now marry his deceased wife's sister, his brother's widow, his father's brother's widow, his brother's son's widow, his wife's brother's daughter, his wife's father's sister...
...year ago, experimenting to find out whether the potent insecticide would irritate human skin, the 30-year-old Briton painted his hands with D.D.T. dissolved in acetone. Then he kneaded some dough heavily impregnated with it. When his skin seemed none the worse, he considered the experiment complete, went on to other things. A few days later his arms and legs began to feel heavy. Soon they began to ache violently and "spasms of extreme nervous tension" racked his body. For ten weeks, doctors were baffled...
...Wilkes was the center of the fiercest cause célèbre of 18th Century England-one that conceivably might have toppled George III from his throne. It began in 1763, at the conclusion of the Seven Years' War. Wilkes, in the 45th number of the North Briton, anonymously denounced George Ill's speech lauding the Peace of Paris - a peace Wilkes likened to the Peace of God, "because it passeth all understanding." For this attack the Government had Wilkes arrested and his house rifled on a general warrant, which violated his civil rights. Then Wilkes, against...