Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faith in the British, so sadly shaken a few months ago, had been restored. "I may never marry," said the Maid of Athens, "but if I do, he will probably be an Englishman." She has received thousands of proposals from Tom Ridgeway's countrymen...
...Maynard Smith, the latest interpreter of this great event, is a canon emeritus of Gloucester Cathedral, but he writes as a historian first and an Anglican second. Henry's history has been finecombed by eminent scholars of the past generation (notably the Englishman A. F. Pollard and the American R. B. Merriman),and Canon Smith has no advantage over them in sources or in scholarship. From the vantage point of the mid-20th Century, however, he can see more ironies than they could in the Reformation carried out by bluff King...
Cole knew the wilderness well. His father was an Englishman who opened a wallpaper shop in the frontier town of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1820. An itinerant portraitist dropped in one day, kindly taught young Cole how to make paint brushes from pig bristles. Soon the boy was wandering from town to town, painting portraits. He lugged along a saddle he had accepted in payment for one job, but he had no horse. Resting on his saddle, in the forest between settlements, he learned to know landscape, and his landscapes later made a hit. In five years he had a Manhattan...
Most of the calls were for the Sadler's Wells top choreographer, lean, 42-year-old Freddie Ashton, whom London critics were quick to praise as "the first Englishman to devise a full-length ballet." He had used most of the gay, though sometimes brittle and bony score that Prokofiev had composed on a Kremlin commission during the war, but he had taken nothing of the Bolshoi Theater's spectacular and even longer ballet. A typical difference: while Ashton has his hero stay close to home, the Russians sent their Prince Charming chasing around the world after...
Edward, My Son. Rich, creamy hokum about a wicked Englishman's dazzling career, played to perfection by Robert Morley (TIME...