Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monty Woolley, beard and all, carries some of his "Man Who Came to Dinner" characteristics with him as he takes over the role of a crotchety Englishman caught on the Continent by the war. Englishman caught on the Continent by the War. Although he has thus created a character somewhat different from what author Neville Shute probably intended, he has nevertheless done a beautiful job on a part which, if not written for him, was rewritten by him to suit his own tastes...
Arriving in Cambridge at 10 o'clock, the guests will split up to attend morning classes. The two Russians will go to History 55b, given by Michael Karpovich, associate professor of History, while the Englishman and the Batavian will go to Economics 81. The Chinese student will visit Radcliffe during these two hours. For the second class period the Batavian and the Englishman will visit Government 4, while the Russians attend an Economics A class where the subject for discussion will be "The Exposition of the Classical Theory of Free Enterprise...
Many of these first-person reports have been given by plain people-like the women war workers who told you about their jobs at the arsenal proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland-or the Englishman just back from a Commando raid who told you the epic story of the battle of St.-Nazaire-or the U.S. bombardier in London who told you how it feels to bomb Germany...
...Yank at Eton (M.G.M.). Timothy Dennis (Mickey Rooney) is as American as Peck's Bad Boy, and a good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head...
Piper Woolley is never quite sure how he came by all of them. He started with two: the son and daughter of a League of Nations official and his wife. After Dunkirk he agreed, with the massive reluctance of a club-bound, child-hating Englishman, to take them to England while their parents returned to Geneva...