Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Government's reception was an evening function in the Great Hall of the House of Lords. Premier Baldwin, pipe in pocket, fanned the fires of Anglo-American friendship. Ambassador Houghton sought to bank the same fires with the broad hint: "I would remind my countrymen that good men are scarce and that they will soon be needed at home...
...forum -the largest yet found in England -built by Emperor Hadrian in A. D. 130. Wroxeter's name in Hadrian's day was Uriconium. Uriconian relics: a steel-sheathed cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints of cerebro-spinal meningitis...
Readers surmised that had the President ridden the horse, Partisan Manly might have compared him to Benedict Arnold, fleeing from his outraged countrymen...
Hero Levine's standing with Frenchmen was ameliorated when he gave 100,000 francs ($4,000) for a pilots' clubhouse at Le Bourget. Hero Levine's standing with his countrymen was salvaged by onetime (1920-21) U. S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, who described the Levine flight and proposed return as a passenger (see p. 19), as a challenge "to you, to me, to everyone...
Frenchmen were ill-pleased with this explanation and stormed in the newspapers that Pilot Drouhin should have carried out his plans with his countrymen. The Farman Motor & Airplane Co. published a bitter letter about its pilot having been "purchased" and sped its preparations to beat Mr. Levine anyway. The Aero Club of France said it would enter the race too, to insure a French victory...