Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in London after barnstorming for a month across Australasia, Noel Coward told countrymen that his one-man war agency A.E.A. (An Englishman Abroad) had raised ?10,000 for the Red Cross. Duty done, Patriot Coward, who reckoned he had wrung 1,400 hands a day during his concert tour, now hoped "my brains are of more service to my country than my body...
Last week, in the 1940 edition of that publication, under a picture of a Lockheed Hudson bomber being towed across the Canadian border was discovered this Grey time bomb: "Now that the United States have decided to support the war 'to the last Englishman' preparations are being made to fly flying fortresses direct to England...
Said Editor Grey, delighted: "The difference between all assistance short of war and financing war 'to the last Englishman' is not very wide, in my opinion. . . . There is a small group of people who want to get me in trouble." Prodded for his opinion as to whether the book would be banned for export, he growled airily: "I haven't the faintest idea, and I don't care a damn, either...
German propagandists could not resist improving on their old friend's old wheeze. They broadcast in German: "In the semiofficial American magazine, All the World's Aircraft, its Editor Grey writes that 'the United States has decided to support the war financially to the last Englishman...
Last week readers of the Holmes-Pollock Letters found that he was also coauthor of one of the great collections of U.S. letters. The other author was Sir Frederick Pollock, a shy, learned Englishman who was one of the greatest authorities on the English common law, author of Principles of Contract, and The Law of Torts...