Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wanted for Murder," a British film, starring Eric Portman and Duleic Gray, is a Jekyll and Hyde story of a young, wealthy Englishman who strangled his feminine companions to death. At first befuddled, Scotland Yard finally arrives to save the life of the sixth victim...
...posted photographs of scenes from Oxford propaganda plays. One showed a merry group of people standing beside an immense cardboard barometer. They were registering CHANGE, the magic word of M.R.A. The head of the M.R.A. ten-man press corps came forward to meet me-a tall, eager, black-browed Englishman, Author Howard himself...
...hotly debated and as certain to be passed-owners and users of Britain's land and everything "in, on, under or over the land" knew what they were up against, and it was plenty. Hereafter, a great saying fraught with the British instinct for freedom would read: "An Englishman's home is his Government's." Planners had captured the Englishman's castle...
...Bill's job has been offered to an Englishman who has never worked for a newspaper. John Duncan Miller, 44-year-old Cambridge man, onetime book publisher and architect, was a wartime colonel, now works in Chicago for the British Information Service. His tough assignment: to explain Britain to a Midwest whose loudest citizen-Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Anglophobic Chicago Tribune-doesn't want to listen. Miller was offered the new job not on the strength of his only published writing, a book of Clerihews,* but because he is a friendly fellow with a considerable awareness...
David Niven, a thin, sprightly Englishman, plays Aaron Burr, and although he does not carry a label of the variety commonly employed by political cartoonists, he is easily recognizable as the scoundrel. Burgess Meredith, as "Father of the Constitution" and name-giver to a high school in Brooklyn, does the only reasonable...