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Word: rooter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Since the death of Rudyard Kipling, the British Empire has found no louder rooter than little Max Aitken, the pulse-taking Express's Canadian-born publisher. The onetime bottle-washer came out with a long personal editorial upholding among other things the aristocratic principle ("an aristocracy of political heritage under the influence of a democratic vote"). But even Publisher Max had "no interest in rescuing Poland and Czecho-Slovakia from the gutter," was for the war only because the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bewildered | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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