Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spectator (London), independent Conservative weekly, contained this statement: "This is a new reading of English history, under which Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights become simply the public expression of the Englishman's dislike of discomfort and inconvenience- not by any means an unattractive reading!" priest, Don Sturzo, the Party professed undying hostility to Benito; but, because the Premier was trying to conciliate the Catholics, many members of the Party sympathized with him, seceded, became political nonentities...
Down a Mexican road went a buggy. Inside were Mrs. Rosalie Evans, American wife of an Englishman, and her paymaster, John Strauss, with 2,000 pesos on his person...
...France. The birchwoods surrounding La Boulie, echoed and resounded with a great crashing. Peering Out of the forest, woodsmen sought the cause of the disturbance, discovered a ponderous Englishman pounding his golf ball about the local links. When the forest was quiet once more, news went abroad that Cyril Tolley, long-smiting amateur ex-champion of Britain, was open champion of France. To two methodical 73's, Tolley on the second day added a 71 and a 73- a total of 290. Sleek "Walto" Hagen spurted through the rain into second place, lacing out a final...
...generally admitted that the future of civilization depends on the intelligent co-operation of the English-speaking peoples. Intelligent co-operation connotes some sort of knowledge and understanding of the other fellow's circumstances and point of view. That great American, whose memory every Englishman delights to honour, Walter H. Page, wrote in a letter published in his biography: "The ignorance, each of the other (i. e. the American and English nations) is beyond all belief." Strong, unqualified words coming from a man in the best position to form a sound judgment. Not one man in 1000 of either nation...
...Harding, Mr. Bryan or General Pershing?we walk differently and act differently. Our nation moves and thinks with a suddenness, a violence and a uniformity unknown abroad; we allow ourselves to be taken in by Mr. H. G. Wells, and we have?it is the one contrast which no Englishman ever forgets?bathtubs...