Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making of intemperate attacks. These he delivered in a gravely falsetto voice which the Oregon Journal likes to call "a high tenor of protest. " High spot of the campaign came when Holman answered accusations of antiSemitism. Said he: "Now why would I be antiSemitic? My own father was an Englishman. I have relatives in England." No New Dealer. Wayne Morse, a progressive Republican, had to convince skeptical GOPsters that his years on WLB had not tarred him with New Dealism. This he did, decisively. Morse, ex-Dean of the University of Oregon Law School, wrote nearly 100 major WLB decisions...
...replaced by such unlegal expressions as "experience," "expediency," "necessity," "life." Soon Harvard's admiring President Eliot offered Holmes a professorship of law. A year later Holmes took his seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court Bench. "So you are the son of the celebrated Oliver Wendell Holmes?" asked an Englishman after Holmes became Massachusetts Chief Justice. "No," replied Holmes. "He was my father...
...Till We Meet Again (Paramount) takes place in an Occupied-French convent and deals with the struggle between the Mother Superior (Lucile Watson), who is secretly evacuating British airmen, and a novice (Barbara Britton) who helps the last Englishman (Ray Milland) escape, at her own life's cost, only after seeing the Mother machine-gunned...
...average Englishman only comes into close contact with the Americans in public houses and in cinemas, which are not always the best meeting places...
...Home Secretary Herbert Morrison told an audience of upper-crust British boys that more socialism has been accomplished in Britain by the Conservative Party, which opposes socialism, than by the Labor Party, which espouses it. Added Mr. Morrison: "This is the funny thing about British politics, which only an Englishman understands, and not many of them understand it, but this is how we get along...