Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behold the mighty Englishman! He rules the Indian small, Because being a meat eater He is five cubits* tall...
Donald Moffat . . . explains their art: "The Englishman's heart is in the land, in the fields and waters and ancient forests of the countryside itself. There his spirit comes truly alive; there, if anywhere, he feels at home, his existence justified. His sense of kinship with nature is no mere poetic fancy. It is real, a part of his bone and blood and fibre...
...Gentleman & a Student. When Zik leaves the U.S. in four weeks, he will join six other Nigerians in England for a barnstorming tour to tell the Nigerian story. He hopes to say a few words about his preference for the next Governor of Nigeria. If it must be an Englishman, Zik hopes it will be the Duke of Windsor (see PEOPLE), whom he considers "a gentleman, a student of human nature, a man with a sense of justice." But in the long run he wants an African governor for Nigeria and, like the Pirates on the day he arrived...
...half-day a week on his flour-mill affairs, the rest of the week on his movies. He is up and into a cup of tea by 7 a.m. in his suite in London's Dorchester Hotel. Before 8, in pops John Davis, 39, a slim, sharp Englishman who is Rank's general manager and heir apparent. He occupies the neighboring suite so that his encyclopedic movie knowledge, learned in 18 years in the business, is always at hand. By 9:30, Rank is in his office, a remodeled Georgian mansion in Mayfair. Business does not even stop...
Chesterton advocated communal ownership of large-scale industry and decentralized agriculture. But as a revolutionary he was very much of an Englishman. The threat of World War I forced him to choose armaments produced by capitalists rather than socialist-pacifist unpreparedness...