Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis were furious. Twice they told the pastor to remove the stone; twice he refused. Then he got the order from the local Nazi big shot. The pastor's reply: "I have buried this Englishman and he now rests in hallowed earth. So long as I am pastor of this church, none, not even the Wehrmacht, shall violate this place...
...Eliot has never been an artist likely to please the bulk of that great audience. Simply as a rather solemn American-turned-Englishman, he is personally unsympathetic to many. His work lacks commonness in the good sense of that word as well as the bad. It requires a patience of ear and of intellect which many readers lack; patience not merely in one reading but in many. For a long time, too, it was easy to misjudge Eliot, thanks to certain of his admirers, as the mere precious laureate of a Harvardian coterie. But that time, fortunately, is well past...
...Great Impersonation" is taken from that old Oppenheim thriller of a German and Englishman who meet in Africa and discover that they look exactly alike. Comes the war, one of them goes back to spy. The question is which, but we all know the answer...
...concertos got to Toronto, nobody knows. Nine years ago a Toronto violinist and collector named Adolph Koldofsky was approached in a Toronto music store by a little Englishman named Barnes who was trying to sell a batch of old musical manuscripts. Barnes, a paper hanger, house painter and grocer who dabbled in collecting, said he had found his manuscripts about 20 years before in a little bookstore at Richmond and York Streets. The shop had since been torn down. Its owner, one Rosenthal, had died...
...SCREWTAPE LETTERS (Macmillan; $1.50): "I have no intention of ex plaining how. . . .") In a series of Chesterfieldian letters, written from the cozy depths of Hell, Screwtape advises his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on the best means of eternally damning the soul of his "patient." The "patient," a young Englishman who is never named, "backslides" into religion, is "rescued" by life among clever agnostics, regains his faith, does his duty in London's air raids, and is snatched into salvation by a bomb...