Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Englishman counseled the long (if partisan) view: "It isn't just you, old boy," he explained, "and it isn't the Good Neighbor policy. This is a sellers' market. . . . There is no sentiment involved. They'll buy wherever it suits them best in terms of price and delivery. If all things were equal, as they must be again some day, they'll buy where they can sell the most of their goods. That, of course, means Britain...
...their fashion, Pepi's counterparts in London (Hugh Shaw), Rio de Janeiro (José Gallo), Cairo (Abdel Basset El Taher) and Shanghai (the three Wongs) are equally adept. Shaw, a small, taciturn, greying Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling...
...Papal supporters, as distinguished from the White nobility, or royalist adherents. † Early in their careers the two Churchills agreed that one should alter his name, to avoid confusion. The Englishman consented to make the change because the American was three years older and far more famous at the time, has signed his writings Winston S. Churchill ever since...
...Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson in association with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) brings John Gielgud back to Broadway for the first time since his Hamlet in 1936. In the interim, the 42-year-old Englishman has played Hamlet at Elsinore, offered British playgoers a cavalcade of the classics, given London a repertory company to rival the Old Vic. For his present visit, Gielgud apparently questioned the importance of being earnest: he would frivol first in Wilde's classic farce, later in Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love...
...third man of the Breadwinner's crew. "I can hear [a Messerschmitt]," Snowy shouted. "What was the other [plane]?" Gregson asked. "They both gone now," said the boy sadly. But, half an hour later Snowy, Jimmy and Gregson had found and hauled aboard the two exhausted pilots-an Englishman and a German...