Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin specializes in skits such as Schmidt & Smith, wherein Smith, a gouty Englishman, played by Lord Haw-Haw, who drops his baritone voice to basso range for the part, is forever getting bested by calm, confident German Schmidt...
...show's one really hot number came when the entire cast went to town with He Is an Englishman, first treating the tune straight, then sweetening it in waltz-time, finally letting fly with a full blast of boogie-woogie while the dancers stomped, slid, slithered...
...reckoned on a peg board) was invented by Britain's Sir John Suckling, a 17th-century gambler. He got the idea from an ancient English game called Noddy, mixed the proportions of luck (drawing cards) and skill (playing them) so piquantly that the game appealed to every Englishman's taste, soon became synonymous with a cozy fireside and a little something simmering on the hob. When English colonists went to the U. S., cribbage went along, too, sprouted wherever there were two people, a fireside and a long winter evening...
Most patriotic of early U. S. composers was an Englishman. In 1792 James Hewitt settled in Manhattan, where he conducted concerts for the peruked and crinolined promenaders at Delacroix's Vaux Hall Gardens. So fervent became Britisher Hewitt's Americanism that he deplored the British alehouse origin of The Star-Spangled Banner,* wrote himself a brand-new musical setting for Francis Scott Key's words...
...John Buchan's adventure stories, the brave and resourceful young Englishman so regularly and so thrillingly came through in the face of the direst subversive influences-and Author Buchan so obviously believed that he could and should-that to his Empire audience he and his heroes came to have a sort of Empire symbolism all their own. Coupled with his yeoman political and patriotic services, this gave Buchan a place on the list of Britain's public patriots not far down the line from Winston Churchill. As well indicated by their hearty welcome to George VI last summer...