Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is only the theory of a friendly stranger. If you or any of your readers can give me the real low down on all get-out, I'll be a regular subscriber even when I get back to England...
...Liberty: "You meet everybody worth meeting, rich or poor, at Cliveden. . . . According to English notions all Americans are insanely hospitable. But Lady Astor is phenomenal even among American hostesses. ... I could prove that Cliveden is a nest of Bolshevism. . . . The Astors have become the representatives of America in England; and any attack on them is in effect an attack on America. . . . Never has a more senseless fable got into the headlines...
...countryside recently have been corps of civilian-defense workers taking notes on how many city dwellers could be housed in Britain's farms and country estates. The Government will pay $2.50 a week for board and room for each child. Some owners of the stately homes of England have lately intimated that they were not anxious to have slum children on their properties. A national advisory association for taxpayers has urged its members: "Think of the dangers-dirt, disease, theft, vandalism, immorality and strife!" But Minister of Health Walter E. Elliot last week announced that Britain's countryfolk...
Included in Withington's correspondence for the last week are a letter from the Animal Resoue League deploring the inhumane deed, an offer from the Goldfish-eating Club of New England for membership, and offer from the Raw Egg Club, an invitation for an exhibition form Roxbury, and the above quoted letter with picture enclosed from Pratt, Kansas...
...never drops till the very end. The characters, passengers on a continental train, are carefully molded to fit the plot. Margaret Lockwood and Dame Whitty are particularly good; and a certain amount of comic relief is supplied by two English cricket fans who are futilely striving to reach England for the test match and meanwhile play a game of their own with pieces of sugar...