Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baffled Britisher buttonholed a U.S. reporter, begged him to "show me which of these things represent the American form of art. They all look French to me." When the correspondent pointed out regional Americana by Thomas Benton and John Steuart Curry, the Englishman said "Hmmm, thank you," and slowly walked away...
...could dish it out, but he failed to keep after his man when he had him on the run. In the fifth round, the two were drubbing away at each other's midsections when Mauriello suddenly lifted his fire and landed on Woodcock's jaw. The Englishman, unbeaten in 25 fights, went down and tottered up a little too late. The referee had already counted...
...Englishman, thank Mr. Ernest Nathan [who said that none of Britain's colonial natives risked their lives for the Empire in the war against Japan-TIME, April 22] for his letter of lofty advice upon how an Englishman may obtain "clean hands?" I trust that the hand that wrote that letter is quite clean in the eyes of your millions of Negroes, not to mention the Indians who have for generations been concentrated in reservations...
John L. Sullivan and his handlebar mustaches were objects of manly admiration when a pint-sized Englishman arrived in Manhattan and decided to become a prizefighter himself. After a few fights, James J. Johnston reconsidered. A man with his brains shouldn't risk having them knocked...
Author Algernon Blackwood, a bald, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Englishman now 77, is still up to his old tricks. The Doll is his first book in ten years. It consists of merely two longish stories (the other: The Trod), both typical old-style Blackwood: sinister, spooky, uncanny. To the literal-minded, such writing appears to be raving nonsense. So, in one sense, it surely is, but Blackwood is almost as artful at making it seem plausible as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's stories are mysterious and terrifying, but for the most part they can be explained in perfectly...