Word: ronalds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though not nearly as delightful as Peter Whiffle, The Blind Bow-Boy reviews a facile display of intellectual fireworks from under the lacquered eyelids of a superficial sophistication. The fireworks squib out, the performance is over. There were too many pinwheels near the close, perhaps, and the shadow of Ronald Firbank had a way of straying across the scene. But, nevertheless, the avowed purpose of the author has been adequately fulfilled...
...Ronald Ross (1857-), English, Colonel in British Army, expert in tropical medicine, discoverer of transmission of the malaria parasite by the Anopheles mosquito...
British dissatisfaction with the treatment of British subjects at Ellis Island boiled up, not for the first time, in the House of Commons, when Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, was questioned by several members. Among the specific charges made against the administration of Ellis Island were...
King Vittorio Emanuele III bestowed the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus upon Sir Ronald Graham, British Ambassador to Italy...
...Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, announced that a strong note would be sent to the Soviet Government of Russia protesting against a series of Soviet actions against the British and demanding the release of a British trawler captain whom the Bolsheviki have imprisoned for fishing in Russian Avaters. Asked by Colonel J. C. Wedgwood (Laborite) whether the Government was aware that the British people is not anxious to precipitate another war, Mr. McNeill answered : " I am perfectly aware of that; it is for that reason that the Government has taken the action...