Word: englishman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Englishmen in his recent article "Getting Together," in the Outlook. A question frequently asked, he states, is "Why can't you people in England be a bit kinder in your attitude toward us here in America?" In replying, the author invents a dialogue between an American and an Englishman. The Briton extenuates his attitude on the hypothesis that "he that is not for us is against us," and since America has withheld an official endorsement of the Allied cause, the influence is unfavorable...
...Russell is called to Harvard he will be asked to take the chair held by such men as Professor Palmer and Professor Royce. The chair demands a philosophical scholar who is an ethical thinker of distinction, and Mr. Russell, with his provocative individualism, is hardly that. If any Englishman is wanted for the post, Canon Rashdall is probably the man with experience as an educator who is best fitted for it. But greatness in such a place is largely a matter of personality, and the Harvard authorities have no small task on their hands in finding men who shall make...
...matter of fact, it will be long before an American language is established in spite of the "janitors of our speech." Even after three hundred years of geographical separation a Bostonian understands an Englishman's conversation more readily than a Southerner's. We still manage to read English books with tolerable facility. There will be no slang lingua franca as long as the leavening influence of conservative instruction remains. In the words of Professor Palmer: "Look well to your speech...
John Otis, of Kansas City, comes to the palatial home of his widowed sister to find out the why and wherefore of her large expense account. He arrives at a most auspicious moment, as all good heroes should. His sister is in the clutches of an unscrupulous Englishman who makes love indiscriminately to her and her companion, Abbey Sexton. John is a business man but a human one. He sees his opportunity, grasps it, and of course the whole thing turns out all right in the end. The Englishman is "halfway to Canada" by the time John wins...
...usual, Mr. Hodge is supported by a thoroughly competent cast. In the role of Lord Haggert, the scheming Englishman, Hamilton Deane is convincing, while Miriam Collins, the attractive little leading lady, is highly delightful as an ingenue sweetheart. Teresa Maxwell Conover is the sister of the title role and plays the part of a spoiled society woman in a most commendable manner. The other principle parts are well taken by Ida Vernon and Charles Canfield, with some twenty more to fill in as guests in the thrilling bridge whist scene...