Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Service For Two. Your Englishman on the U. S. comedy stage is a slow-witted, honorable nobleman. Place such an one in Room 1913 of the Hotel Alabaster, his newly wed wife in Room 1914, his careless, former sweetheart in Room 1912, and the best of the worst will ensue. Every time hubby is on the point of explaining all, some one knocks at the door. Hugh Wakefield cleverly stutters, gasps, grimaces, after the established manner of approved farce-comedy spouses. Pretty Marion Coakley contributes a vivid piece of work as the unextinguished Hollywood flame in Room 1912. All this...
...These answers justify the belief that the creed of the ordinary middle-class Englishman is still what might be described as 'common sense' Christianity and has not yet been much affected by the spread of agnosticism...
Into the inky waters at Cape Gris-Nez plunged a daughter of the Vikings, a man from Egypt, an Englishman. It was 11:32 p. m. Three hours later the Egyptian collapsed. The next afternoon the Englishman gave up one mile from the Shakespeare Cliffs at Dover. At 3:10 p. m. the daughter of the Vikings stumbled on the sands of Dover beach, collapsed. She was the first mother to swim the English Channel. Her time was an hour slower than Gertrude Ederle's. Mrs. Corson (nee Amelia Gade) revived, told the crowd around her: "I was determined...
...barristers scanned last week the will of Baron Walter von Bissing, arched their eyebrows in surprise. The Baron, as everyone knows, was half-brother to General von Bissing, notorious German Military Governor-General of Belgium during a part of the World War. Though Baron von Bissing was a naturalized Englishman and professed detestation for General von Bissing's tyranny over Belgium, he was suspected by many a Briton of being "German at the core," and was interned during the World War. How unjustified were these suspicions was revealed last week when a certain clause in his will revealed...
...sets, just as he did in Paris three weeks ago, adding new force to the prophesy that France will win the Davis cup this year. Nobody cared. They wanted to see Mlle. Lenglen, actually applauded her when she strolled off the court with Borotra after having defeated a young Englishman and his lady. Borotra told the press that rheumatism in Mlle. Lenglen's neck and shoulders kept her from sleeping. "She is very ill ... she cries all the time . . . her mother cannot pacify her. . . ." Miss Ryan, too, fell ill, cancelled her matches. Nobody suggested that her illness was fantasy...