Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beachcomber was made in France and England to launch Laughton's new producing partnership with Producer-Director Erich Pommer. Laughton's performance ranks with his Captain Bligh and his Henry VIII. The script, by Bartlett Cormack, is suave enough to make the implications of its story acceptable to U. S. censors. Good shot: the beginning of a profound change in the relationship of Ginger Ted and the lady missionary- when she removes a splinter from...
...Maine. When he had grown up, his father, also a minister, was fond of saying: "He was born in a hurry and has been in a hurry ever since." Tall, lean and bounding with energy, Norman Nash was graduated from Harvard and Episcopal Theological School, studied at Cambridge in England, was a chaplain in the War and went back to teach at Episcopal for 19 years. Meanwhile he raised two daughters and a son, three nieces...
...which AAA I and AAA II have only partly succeeded; 2) lower prices of manufactured goods; 3) devalue the dollar again, giving commodity prices an inflationary shot in the arm. With new devaluation already threatened for the weak currencies of Britain and France, the homecoming of Ambassador Kennedy from England last fortnight hatched a new brood of rumors that the dollar's gold content was about to be cut from 59? to 50?. Asked about these rumors, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau wearily gave his standard answer-that he did not."consider them important enough to begin denying...
During the cold winter of 1717, snow fell steadily for five days in New England, lay five or six feet deep in Boston for a long time. In March 1741, people sleighed from Stratford, Conn. to Long Island across the solidly frozen Sound. In 1779-80, according to Thomas Jefferson, "the Chesapeake Bay was frozen solid from its head to the mouth of the Potomac. At Annapolis the ice was five to seven inches in thickness, quite across...
...Some of the evidence for his theory: the description of how a fascist Church thumbscrewed and burned its subjects without even a semblance of justice (there is no recorded case of not guilty under the Inquisition) for refusing to swear undivided allegiance ; how Edward I expelled the Jews from England in 1290, taking their houses, their money, some times (accidentally) their lives. For tile rest, Professor Coulton himself describes the book as a scaffolding by which young students may climb to chisel details on the monument of knowledge. The analogy is poor. No scaffolding was ever built so meticulously from...