Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of the play is about South Africa. The hero is an Englishman. He left England because of a woman, but meets her again in Africa. But now he is the Chief of a tribe of pigmies. Their love is revived, but in the last act the woman is pierced by the spear of a pigmy...
...been said that England's government is more democratic than ours. The only inference is that over there they are "educated up" to it. The Englishman is brought up with the ambition to serve his government. A parliamentary life is the highest profession, with the result that in devoting himself to politics an Englishman is not required to "soil his hands...
...fight when war comes," he said. "It means that in peace-time we must make real friendly contacts with all people; it means that we have got to get into human relations that make it quite impossible for us even to think of killing a German, a Frenchman, an Englishman, or an American. We pacifists failed before the war in that we had not produced friendly relations enough...
...DANCE OF LIFE ? Havelock Ellis ? Houghton Miff tin ($4.00). Havelock Ellis, psychologist and essayist, called "the most civilized Englishman living today," writes his philosophic view of life and the living thereof. "It has always been difficult," he begins, "for Man to realize that his life is all an art." In the development of his thesis?which is considerably more an attitude than a theory?Mr. Ellis has written what will probably stannd as one of the most significant achievements of contemporary thought...
...Harold Bauer, one of the world's foremost pianists, will be the soloist at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's third appearance in Sanders Theatre this season at 8 o'clock tonight. Mr. Bauer, an Englishman born in London, at first studied the violin, but later, on Paderewski's recommendation studied the piano in Paris. He first appeared in the United States in 1900 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...