Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chess champions are rarely swashbucklers. They call their ties "cravats" and tie them neatly but docilely; they wear their hats on the middle of their hard round heads. Among the gentlemen at Moscow is the imperturbable veteran, Dr. Emanuel Lasker, who slightly resembles his late fellow-countryman, Dr. Immanuel Kant. The years have failed to shake his prestige; he looks on tempests and is never shaken. The shrewd American, Marshall, did well in the first rounds of the tournament; the great Russian, Bogoljubow, lived up to expectations; a young man named Torre rose like a red ascending star...
...into the air from factory chimneys and shaken at intervals by sluggish trolley cars, there stands in Cleveland a building known as Slovenian Hall-rendezvous for exiled Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians. Last week this hall blazed with light and wit. The Slovenians of Cleveland entertained their most widely celebrated countryman, Ivan Mestrovic, sculptor. Ivan Zorman, spokesman for Cleveland Slovenians, was toastmaster; other prominent citizens-John Gornik, Frank Tomic, Rev. George Petrovic, Bojeslav Mihalievic, W. M. Milliken- spoke. In the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sculptor Mestrovic's work stood on exhibit...
Made in America. An Armenian by birth and an American citizen by choice has written a play. His play is not so popularly concocted as the plays of his countryman, Mr. Arlen. In fact it is concocted so rudely as to seem an amateur product. The plot follows an Armenian boy from the family massacre in the old country to Ellis Island, through honest poverty and ultimate success. Made in America is said to be a kind of reverent memorial by its author (M. H. Gulesian) to his own life and liberty in this the promised land...
...talk that they heard ran sometimes on other young men, besides the perennial headliners, who might give him unexpectedly stern treatment: stocky Fred Lamprecht, perhaps, the intercollegiate champion; or Lauren Upson from the Pacific Coast, another rising collegian; Don Garrick, the Canadian junior, who also boxes, and his countryman, C. Ross Summerville, who bounced Max Marston from the 1924 Canadian Amateur...
Baldwin. CHARACTER: "Here is a plain, blunt, simple-hearted countryman. . . . For good or for evil, his personality entirely lacks the flick of a cocktail. He is genuine cider. The small pinched-up eyes, with their uplifted brows, have the shrewdness of the shepherd rather than the sharpness of the merchant; the deep, grave, kindly voice has no note of drawing-room or art coterie, but the tone of a slow, pondering, decisive country mind. He is a man of action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard...