British Empire Games
- February – British Empire Games held in Sydney
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“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
—George Chapman c. 15591634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)
“Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.”
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—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
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