Word: kingdom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their overlord. The red-fezzed, toothbrush-mustached Briton accepted and announced that he was King of the entire Chinese province of Sinkiang, of some 3,000,000 Moslem, Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist souls speaking Turkish, Russian, Chinese and Persian. Sweeping clean, he announced that the name of his new kingdom was "Islamistan...
...those who use it ever keep grateful thought of the many who struggled for long months against mud and darkness to bring it into being. . . . May our peoples always work together thus for the blessing of this Kingdom by wise and noble uses of power that man has won from nature...
...much as admitting that Sir Bernard Spilsbury as much as thought these four letters were the end of a place name such as "Guilford." Apparently even Sir Bernard was somewhat baffled. He asked the Home Office to order Scotland Yard to request by radio that police throughout the United Kingdom search all parcels which had remained more than two weeks in station check rooms. No sooner had this search begun than the remains of a stillborn baby were found at Brighton in a wicker basket which had been checked on Feb. 24. "You see it was a wicker fish basket...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, who has a gentlemanly aversion to naming names, asked the House of Commons to empower him to collect "certain debts" from "certain foreign countries" by the extraordinary step of seizing the proceeds of their exports to the United Kingdom, at the discretion of His Majesty's Government. The bill was clearly aimed at Germany and amid a chorus of "Hear! Hear!'' the House rushed it through first reading and sped it on toward second...
...rushed around to the afternoon teaparty for the foreign press and diplomats at the Ministry of Propaganda (see p. 16). "Nobody will expect Germany to accept such a clearance system!" he snapped at the assembled correspondents, reminding them that while Germany has a favorable trade balance with the United Kingdom she has an unfavorable balance with the British Empire as a whole. This fact gave Dr. Schacht a chance to threaten "complete rejection of all further intercourse" with the Empire, should the Kingdom crack down on Germany...