Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the New York Herald Tribune asked some handy historians what they were calling it. Said Englishman Denis W. Brogan, now lecturing at Yale: "Maybe after a time I shall call this the atomic war, or the world war, part two." But to him, World War I was no world war, since it had hardly involved Asia and the Pacific. Said Columbia University's Henry Steele Commager: "President Roosevelt tried to find a fancy name, but . . . these wars are too big for descriptive names...
...Nihonbashi, or Bridge of Japan, crossing one of the canals in the heart of the city, and most Japanese towns boast a copy of Tokyo's Nihonbashi. Many streets are pleasantly named for flowers, trees and beasts. Exceptions: Anjin-cho (pilot street), named for Will Adams, first Englishman to visit Japan; the Ginza ("mint for silver coins"), Tokyo's main street, combining the worst features of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and the Atlantic City boardwalk. Signs in Roman characters along the Ginza were often just a little wrong: "Milk Snop"; "Barber Shot"; "Traunks & Bugs...
...improvisations suggested by the famed, funereal painting of Swiss Romanticist Arnold Bocklin. Quarantined on a tomb-haunted island off the Grecian coast, after one of them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris Karloff), a sinister peasant woman (Helene Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many moral and psychological implications. Tensions grow as the characters develop...
Oldtime Vienna correspondents knew sharp-featured George Eric Rowe Gedye (rhymes with steady) as a cool little Englishman, always reserved and distantly polite, who could write with startling passion of his love (Austria) and his hate (the Nazis). Last week they caught the Gedye touch in London Daily Herald pieces pleading that unless the Allies acted, Vienna would starve within 30 days...
...last week many an Englishman hearing Labor's Harold Laski demand the immediate nationalization of the Bank of England (see FOREIGN NEWS) wondered how long it would stay what it has been for over two centuries-the world's most powerful private bank...