Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover) REWARD-DEAD OR ALIVE: Englishman, 25 years old, about 5 ft. 8 in. tall, indifferent build, walks "with a forward stoop, pale appearance, red-brownish hair, small and hardly noticeable mustache, talks through his nose and cannot pronounce the letter S properly...
There is an extraordinary fact about English democracy-namely, that at almost any given time some English leader turns out to be a perfect symbol of his people. At the time of Edward VIII's abdication, Stanley Baldwin was the typical Englishman. At the time of the Munich crisis, Neville Chamberlain was pathetically typical. But as of the fourth week of September 1940, Winston Churchill was the essence of his land. The three men are as dissimilar as fog, rain and hail, which are all water. But the country they ruled has changed. This England is different...
...Meyer Davis at private social functions. Said she: "I do not intend to fall in love until I am 23. I believe love is something you can ward off if you wish, and I wish to. When I do fall in love I will prefer a European man, an Englishman or an Austrian. They usually are more powerful, strong, gallant and charming than American men." In Los Angeles Mrs. Josephine Dillon Gable, greying, fiftyish, dramatic coach and onetime (1923-30) wife of Clark Gable, petitioned for the right to drop her last name. Said she: "I have been hounded...
...Herbert Hoover is mentally deficient and Roosevelt is an amateur Englishman, a Jew, and the leader of the fifth column in this country...
Last fortnight came the first open appeal by an Englishman of international reputation for the U. S. to declare war on Germany. The pioneer was 67-year-old, liberal Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, longtime contributor to the Manchester Guardian in England, The New Republic here. His plea, From England to America, A Message, is an amplification of a New Republic article of June 17. In making it, he let out of the bag one of the biggest and blackest cats that shiftier interventionists have tried to hide...