Word: britannia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to set any precedent for the residents of Lowell House. Nor does he wish to have it seem that the first resident of the new dormitory is showing any favoritism between those groups of Lowell House tutors who can't seem to decide between "Yankee Doodle" and "Rule Britannia" for a house anthem...
...compromising with Capitalism" and not daring to seek the straight Socialist solution of nationalizing industry, he roared: "Some say that Labor will run the Government for 20 years. God knows, at the rate we are going, we will need every minute of it to get anything done!" "Rule Britannia." Piqued at the highly favorable reaction of British public opinion to Laborite Ramsay MacDonald's peace odyssey, the Liberal and Conservative leaders in the Commons (both recent Prime Ministers) tried to convince the House, last week, that they had intended and longed to go to Washington while in office...
...will respect the right of U. S. merchantmen to freedom of the seas. Since there has been general uneasiness in Britain on the latter point, Mr. MacDonald's straightforward answer cleared the air, enhanced his popularity, banished suspicion that he is an impractical Socialist capable of bartering away Britannia's right to rule the wave...
...Cotton Weather." Why is British cotton fabricating confined almost exclusively to Lancashire, thus creating even a regional monopoly, putting all Britannia's cotton eggs dangerously in one basket...
...this request even the most friendly could not respond, for while the letter was on its way, the choleric, anti-U.S. weekly Britannia (TIME, Nov. 5) had failed under the extravagant editorship of Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau and was about to lose its identity in a merger with England's popular Eve, according to statements issued by wealthy, wiry William Harrison, owner of both publications and some 25 other periodicals...