Word: anglophilia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last and most effective jibes at Mr. Lowell's pet plan was the editorial "Putting on English" which took Lowell and Coolidge to task for their Anglophilia. After the first High Table at Lowell House, at which tutors in evening dress looked down over a Dining Hall filled with students, the lights failed several times and the undergraduates were served three quarters of an hour late, the news writer and the editorialist went to town. But the paper also editorially lauded the choice of house staffs, and reached an accord with the Administration on the House Plan. When the list...
...after garnering a few commissions in London, Maurice Quentin de La Tour set himself up as a portraitist in Paris. The year was 1727, and Anglophilia was becoming fashionable in the court at Versailles...
...Such men as "Poodle" Byng, ''Apollo" Raikes, and the gorgeous Count D'Orsay followed or improved upon Brummell's styles; collars, stiff with whalebone, rose above the ears, cravats required pounds of starch, and coats became bosomy with padding. French aristocrats, in a wave of Anglophilia, embraced the fad-although, the author notes, they confused the thin-wristed dandy with his county cousin, the fox-hunting buck...
...Colonel Cantrell, a cold collation of cliches, who provides a brutal portrait of a modern British bureaucrat. ¶ Sophie Bielska, who is destroyed by her own Anglophilia. She loves to say "dash it all," and her finest hours are those she spends with her fine British friends; happily, perhaps, she never makes it to an England that never was. ¶Herbert Wragg, whose honeymoon was spoiled because the toilet paper at the progressive boarding house he stayed at consisted of squares from the Daily Worker...
...Never Forget You (20th Century-Fox) is a remake of Berkeley Square, with Tyrone Power in the role played originally by the late Leslie Howard. In the new version, Power is a U.S. atomic scientist suffering from acute Anglophilia with historical complications. His yearning to live in 18th century England thrusts him mysteriously one evening into the Technicolored London of his ancestors...