Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just as many an Englishman generations after the expulsion of the Stuart dynasty toasted the bonny king over the water, so staunch Democrats insisted that Samuel J. Tilden was rightfully President from 1877 to 1881. In the election of 1876, Tilden received 184 undisputed votes in the electoral college, Rutherford B. Hayes, 165. The 20 disputed votes, of which Democrat Tilden needed only one to win were all awarded to Hayes by a Republican-dominated commission...
...gentlemen had rowed out, sweating, into the great crescent river-harbor of New Orleans, La., to the Japanese world cruise ship Santos Mam. There they had found a huge, six-foot, blue-eyed Englishman of 58, who admitted to having been from 1917 to 1922 the most potent jurist in India, the Advocate General of Bengal, a post second in dignity only to the Viceroyship. Sipping their tea, the gentlemen of the press gave eager heed to Sir Thomas Clarke Pilling Gibbons. Lady Gibbons poured...
...years a gaunt Englishman has lain paralyzed in the village of Grez-sur-Loing, France, unable to go among men and hear them praise his music as "greatest in England since Purcell [17th Cen-tury]" and even "ranking with the greatest of all time." He is Frederick Delius, onetime Florida orange-planter, onetime music teacher in Danville, Va. He wrote "Sea Drift" to Walt Whitman's words. He wrote "Mass of Life" and "Appalachia." Later he set Poet James Elroy Flecker's Hassan to music and the splendors of "The Golden Road to Samarkand" filled the Haymarket Theatre...
...sense of personal discipline of the former", declared Henry. "One often hears that English athletes are surprisingly lax about training, but on that point I disagree. True, ale may be in evidence at an Oxford training table, but it is taken in small quantities, and in other respects the Englishman is more fastidious than the American...
...Lady in Love. In the Restoration Period, an Englishman went to gaol if he got inextricably into debt-unless, of course, he had a daughter to marry off to a miserly spindle-legged monster. Peggy Wood, a maid passing fair, plays the daughter sold to a miser. But she has her consolation-a ruddy ragged redcoat, Captain Bragdon (Gavin Gordon). Who shall cast the first stone when he, disguised as a corpse and wheeled into the boudoir by the order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney...