Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average Tommy is a good egg, and it's people like him who make up most of England, not the so-called typical Englishman who says "rawther...
...attached copy of a letter just received from an old business associate and friend in England I believe to be very expressive of the Englishman's viewpoint...
British Tommies, roused for once to a burning fury, allow them no respite. It is their just reward. Perhaps it can all be summed up in the few croaking words that came from a pitiful pile of rags and bones that lay at my feet: "Look, Englishman, this is German culture...
...movies have achieved. Candy's relationship with his beloved girls, reticent, boyishly idealistic and far more deeply felt than the eye can see, is a moving exposition of a kind of love the movies rarely pay attention to. The life history of the subtle German and the sanguine Englishman culminates in a beautiful study of two kinds of old age: one seasoned through suffering, the other invincibly innocent. Long as it is, Blimp seems short, for it is done with a constant feeling for lightness and for style, and it is wonderfully well acted...
...habit who love to eat the food to which they are accustomed, however dull it may be, Lord Woolton was not destined to attain the unpopularity of Leon Henderson or Jimmy Byrnes. He had not lived at University Settlement, Liverpool, without learning how to appeal to the ordinary Englishman. He taught them to do without things they had eaten all their lives-and not mind...