Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon hundreds come back from their Rugger games muddier and scarcely drier than the rowing men. It is not to be wondered at, then, that the weather forms the first staple of conversation at Oxford; that it is, in fact, the first of a number of interests which the Englishman and the foreigner find in common at Oxford. The part which the weather plays in fostering Anglo-American friendship is not to be underestimated...
...best method of arriving at agreement as to the relative strength of our navies would be, I think, to delegate the matter to a commission of two, one American and one Englishman. Naval experts should not be permitted to embarrass the deliberations of these two statesmen. . . . I feel that Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Hoover or the Earl of Balfour and Mr. Hughes would agree where no conference of admirals or experts could...
...Even if Waterloo was not won on the playing fields of Eton, every Englishman and every fair-minded foreigner will admit that the Great War was won on the football fields of the United Kingdom. Nothing strikes the foreigner more than your independence as citizens and even your cheek when abroad. The Englishman seems to have learned the restraint of leadership while boys in other countries are learning Latin and arithmetic. "There might have been no Great War in Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished...
...liked to choke old ladies. He cut the tongues from the mouths of his three Japanese servants. Mr. Crispin has a son whose father-fixation is so unshakable that he agrees to be the nominal husband of a girl whom Mr. Crispin wants to torture. An impulsive young Englishman who loves her, plots to rescue her from the Crispin home. He is aided by an ineffectual young American (who supplies the only comic relief by frequent, skillful references to Baker, Oregon, "a place in America," where he has two sisters, Hetty and Jane, "good girls"). Apprehended, the Englishman is bound...
...this is not eliminating gravity, as Englishman Tate last week declared that he had done. No scientist yet knows just what gravity is, and until someone does know it cannot be overcome...