Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proverbial. In the olden days he used to try to kill his enemy with an axe; that failing, he invited him to dinner. Now, in athletic contests, he beats his rivals in the afternoon and then dines them in the evening; or, in the House of Commons, he shouts "traitor" and "liar" at his best friend on the opposite bench and then after the session walks out with him arm in arm. The Yale and Harvard track teams last summer experienced more than a touch of that social grace which the Englishman unites with his most hostile athletic endeavors...