Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick...
Most Wodehouse characters live in England, but they have a curiously American shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play...
...Wodehouse story it is perfectly natural for the cartoonist of a syndicated U.S. comic strip to find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick...
...study, conducted by the American Association of University Professors, gave Yale and Princeton A's for their minimum pay scales, but B's for their average salaries. Only seven other institutions received a B rating in either category, while 36 earned C's. Other grades ranged from D down...
...year-old governor is widely credited for bringing "commonwealth" status to the Caribbean island taken by the United States in the Spanish-American War. In 1950, by maintaining a middle course between the Republicanos who wanted statehood, and the Independistas who wanted complete separation from the United States, Munoz was instrumental in the creation of an elective governorship, which gave the islanders both the political protection of the United States and continued freedom from federal taxes...