Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...melodrama, laying on a few too-thick bits of the Biblical locution; but in the main they will be delighted and amazed to see in this, his best work yet, the subtle operation of his gentle Irish irony, something of that astringent quality that sharpens the art of his countryman, Painter Willie Orpen, who once painted a swarthy, hawk-faced gypsy basking with his woman and trained bear on the lush, noon-flooded Hill of Howth...
...numerical chance of a British woman marrying a fellow countryman is rather less than one in three. British population figures for 1921: males, 20,430,623; females, 22,336,907. These figures fail to indicate the decrease in males between 26 years and 56 occasioned...
...night a Scotland Yard detective watches a plain brass knocker and the neatly engraved doorplate which bears the legend "No. 10" and marks the extremely modest Downing Street town-house of the British Prime Minister. There that exuberant countryman, Premier Stanley Baldwin, seems always a trifle like a ruddy-faced squire come up to London for perhaps the fifth or sixth time in his life...
...Parliament assembled last week, Canadians placed many a bet on robust, hearty Premier King and on his traditional rival, sleek, meticulous, former Premier Meighen. The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood...
...call my great countryman, the ace of all aces, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, a "sportsman"? [Nov. 30 issue P. 14.] That English term of praise befits him ill. He was a true German. In his person he epitomized unflinching might. He was no weak "sportsman. You English and American only call him one in order that as the "nations of sportsmen" you may seem to imply that he was one of you and share his glory...