Word: sprat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brash Sprat...
...Royal Naval College, cadets nicknamed the future George V when he was a cadet "The Sprat." Edward VIII as a cadet was "The Sardine." The more serious, studious nature of George VI made him, as a cadet, "Dr. Johnson" and later "Mr. Johnson." It was soon evident that the present King was the only scion of the Royal Family ever to show a definite mechanical bent. Ship mechanisms became his major interest. Even today His Majesty is fond of the exceedingly intricate model railways-not "toys" but "scale models" costing in some cases up to $20,000 for a complete...
...Royal Jack Sprat and his Queen would not present an appearance more distinctive than do Their Majesties King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena. From the wild mountains of Montenegro, where women are not only women but Amazons, came Elena. Last week Her Majesty wrote to peasant-born Benito Mussolini with Amazonian directness...
...King sold this theory to his Canadian constituents. From last January until shortly before the Canadian elections, Canada's Conservative Government had been exploring the possibility of tariff trading with Secretary of State Hull. Results were not very promising. The U. S. and Canada are not like Jack Sprat & wife. Commercially they are much more like Jack Sprat and his twin brother Bill: in general, they produce similar products. Neither Canada nor the U. S. can expect the other to take its surplus wheat or copper. When the Canadians asked whether the U. S. would take Canadian fish, potatoes...
...read avidly English anuthors with whom many English critics have been unfamiliar, and Dr. Boyd quotes his opinions of them, especially of the minor seventeenth centuary poets. In view of Goethe's scientific interests, on the other hand, it is perhaps not strange that he read and admired Thomas Sprat's "History of the Royal Society...