Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris to see. Last week the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung and other big German newspapers published two photographs. One showed a buxom Parisienne spitting in a British prisoner's face. Said the caption: "This Parisian lady could not be prevented from showing her disgust by spitting in the Englishman's face." The other picture showed a G.I. ducking a blow at his face delivered by a bespectacled bystander. Said the caption: "The population was so aroused against criminal terrorists that German soldiers were not always able to hold back the irate crowd...
Candlelight in Algeria (British Lion 20th Century-Fox) illuminates a dark corner of the invasion of North Africa. Its heroine (Carla Lehmann), a Kansas-born sculptress, hides a fugitive Englishman (James Mason) from the local Nazi chief (Walter Rilla). Later she snitches a small camera from the lair of a collaborationist nightclub singer (Enid Stamp-Taylor). A lot of people are interested in this camera, because it contains film which shows the location of the seaside house in which General Mark Clark and his colleagues are soon to rehearse signals for the invasion. Dapper Nazi Rilla and his henchmen energetically...
...India shall be a nation! No foreigners of any sort! . . . Clear out, you fellows, double-quick, I say. We may hate one another but we hate you most. ... If it's fifty-five hundred years we shall get rid of you, yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea, and then" -he rode against him furiously-"and then," he concluded, half-kissing him, "you and I shall be friends...
...from coloratura soprano to Chaliapin bass. But-it is not his voice that enthralls his fans, it is his lingo. For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican,† is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans. Pocho, which literally means something that has lost its color, has come to stand for the thousands of Mexicans near or across the border who have ruined their Spanish without ever quite learning English. To aficionados Tin Tan is high satire...
Military experts observed that the robot might be regarded as a parallel to the famed Pariser Kanone of World War I, which shelled Paris at extreme range (76 miles) and disconcerted many people without affecting the outcome of the struggle in the slightest. An elderly Englishman in a shelter ticked the robot off more tersely...