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...Airedale originated last century when middle-class and laboring Englishmen in the Aire River Valley tried to improve the scent and watermanship of their local terriers by crossing them with otterhounds. First called Waterside terrier, the new dog was renamed Airedale...
Filipinos are credited with coining "Yo-Yo's" present name. When the Duke of Wellington played with one. Englishmen called it a "Quiz." Most dictionaries, including Webster's, stick to the old name "Bandalore...
Hating some Englishmen and fearing no man, stubborn, elderly Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog of the Union of South Africa has battled mightily to keep his dominion on the gold standard. All other dominions and the Mother Country are off. Ever since sterling slipped, English economists have been favoring South Africa with advice and appeals to "link your pound with sterling." Because Premier Hertzog is Dutch-blooded, Englishmen started a limerick in London which has spread to Capetown...
During the War it was General Smuts who lined up South Africans, whether English or Dutch blooded, to fight for the Empire. Recently the General, a persona] friend of King George and of potent Englishmen galore, has insisted that South Africa must patriotically join Mother Britain off the gold standard. Last week Judge Roos asked General Smuts to join him, proposed that they found a "Coalition Party" to overthrow the Hertzog Cabinet...
...years French art has been coming this way. Now it is going back. It was the same after the Franco-Prussian War and the French Revolution except that then wealthy Englishmen bought it up. We have since taken it back at a profit both ways. I consider French art excellent propaganda. We send it .out, making money in the process, and then it always comes back...