Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill, in the first post-war speech to combine realism with authority, proved himself yesterday to be a good Englishman and a good European. His national post-war policy endorsed in fact if not in name the Beveridge Plan for compulsory social security; he pledged himself to abolish the old school tie tradition, to rid England of drones, whether they be aristocrats or pub crawlers. And showing the type of realism which differentiates constructive planning from political promises, he offered a definite financial program calling for high taxes and stabilized prices to avoid inflation. Social legislation would...
...Gobineaus and the Houston Chamberlains"-meaning the Comte de Gobineau (1816-82), one of the first racists, who in Essai sur I' Inégalité des Races Humaines argued that only the white races are capable of creating culture; of Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1926), the fantastic Englishman who married Richard Wagner's daughter Eva, and wrote that Germany is the master race...
...combined English and Welsh system. As in the U.S., secondary education in Scotland is completely free, and it is not distinct from the elementary but develops from it. Like the Welsh, the Scots are hungrier than the English for learning: one Scotsman in 473 goes to a university, one Englishman...
...Sirs: Is the Times going per iter tenebricosum like the rest of the papers? . . . This morning your correspondent says 'Mothers have been chided by various ministers. . . .' What has happened to the old English word 'chidden?'. . . We seem to be reaching a point at which an Englishman won't be able to call his language...
Leighton and Bloch's prize-winning comedy "Spring Again" finally brings the veteran C. Aubrey Smith back to the stage; where he belongs. Long typed by Hollywood as the old-school tie and "all that sort of rot" kind of Victorian Englishman, Smith finds himself in his own element as the lovable old American gentleman, Halstead Carter. An able supporting cast, headed by Grace George and Ann Andrews, and the excellent direction of Guthric McClintic combine to fashion an enjoyable play despite the handicap of an old and unwieldy plot...