Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...henpecked husbandhood." The most amazing tribute came from Quebec, where famed Conservative Winston Churchill, immediate predecessor of Chancellor Snowden at the Exchequer, was lecture-touring last week. Said he warmly: "I think Snowden is opposing the Young Plan not on personal or party grounds but solely as an Englishman who wants fair play...
WEST RIDING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE refers to a great manufacturing region of England. The members may or may not ride, have horses; their chief vocation is the manufacturing of woolen goods. Either Senator Smoot was intentionally misleading, or unintentionally ignorant. It would be equally as bad for some Englishman to state that Congress was a meeting...
...Drug, Inc.'s Rexall products. For Drug Inc. is a holding company for the United Drug Co. of Louis Kroh Liggett, combined with the onetime Sterling Products Co. (Feb. 1928) into the present drug chain which serves 25% of the U. S. public plus many a Canadian and Englishman...
Painter Chandor's grandfather was Count Laszlo Chandor of Hungary, kin by marriage of the great Prince Metternich. His mother was an Irishwoman. Raised in England and at heart an Englishman, he, like many another young gentleman, considered it more sporting to go into the War as a "Tommy" in the ranks than to get a commission. After he came out, the tailstroke of what had smashed him up "a bit," smashed his family's fortunes. Instead of grubbing along or "going out" to the U. S. or Canada, he squared off at life, determined to develop his strongest talent...
...lunging down to the water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year and a half and was worth it. Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them a silly but exciting story about an Englishman whose best friends hand him white feathers when they find out he is scared of going to war against the blacks. When his sweetheart hands him the fourth white feather, he starts a series of heroic deeds which result in preserving his three friends in turn and possibly also...