Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is a family of nations, Russia and England are like brothers who seldom speak, fight when they look friendly, fight somebody else when they seem most at odds. If the new agreement is signed in an atmosphere of overwhelming suspicion, it will be no new thing in Anglo-Russian relations. When both were in monarchic Holy Alliance, they intrigued against each other, sabotaged each other's trade, angled for republican U. S. support. When Tsar Nicholas I proposed that they divide up Turkey in the middle of the last century, England fought Russia as Turkey's ally...
...years saw a diplomatic somersault in the relations of the two countries. After the Crimean War, when the peace treaty forbade Russia a fleet on the Black Sea, the Tsar lined up with Germany. After the Franco-Prussian War, victorious Germany backed Russia in denouncing the treaty. But when England and Russia were at odds again over Turkey, Germany backed...
Next decade, after squabbles with England over Afghanistan, Persia, the borders of India and Russia's whirlwind expansion into Asia, Russia had teamed up with France; Englishmen were quoting Kipling's "The Bear that walks like a "Man"; Russians were damning England as the land of money-loving merchants. Thereupon, in 1907, they agreed to an alliance against Germany. By 1917, after the Bolshevik Revolution, they were enemies again; in 1927, three years after they had exchanged chargés d'affaires, England broke off relations as a result of Comintern anti-British propaganda in China...
...visitors have a classy infield with Johnny Piurek at first, Captain Camille Durand at second, Art Duplessis at short, and Dick Blasser at third. Crimson mentor Stahl rates Blasser as one of the most promising intercollegiate hot-corner custodians in New England. Another football star, Hank Quellette cavorts in the center garden, flanked by Bruno Malinowski and Henry Giardi. HARVARD HOLYCROSS Johns, 2b. c.f. Ouellette Gannett, c.f. l.f., Giardi Grondahl, 3b. r.f., Malinowski Lupien, 1b. 3b., Blasser Lovett, l.f. c., Barry Tully, r.f. 1b., Piurek Fulton, c. 2b., Durand Keyes, s.s. s.s., Duplessis Curtiss, p. p., Delaney
Three Juniors will represent Harvard on the joint Harvard-Yale squad which journeys to England to match strokes with the combination Oxford-Cambridge tennis team...