Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first, and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one . . . There never was any such species as Anglo-Irish; and there never will be. It is hard to make Englishmen understand this, because America can change an Englishman into a Yankee before his boots are worn out" Of the "illusion" that "the Irish are The Chosen Race ... I can only say that it exists, and that I share it in spite of reason and commonsense...
John Barton Townley, 34, is a rich Englishman with a Falstaffian laugh and a weak heart. Because of the heart, his doctor advised him to give up golf and rugger. So Townley, having studied the racing sheets as well as law at Cambridge, bought some race horses. Last week, at Newmarket, his weak heart thumped and bumped under a strain that might have told on stronger...
...play chronicles the brilliant, unprincipled career of an Englishman who will stoop to any low trick out of love for his son. The theme...
...Oliver Twist had been showing for three weeks, the theater manager noted little comment against Fagin, no unfavorable publicity, no effect on business. The Toronto Jewish Congress called on Rank representatives to complain, but later decided to drop the matter. "We feel," one was quoted as saying, that an Englishman has just as much right to complain about Bill Sikes." Could Rank quiet the din by reshooting some scenes in the $1,600,000 picture? It seemed impractical; there were too many shots of Fagin, and some members of the cast had scattered. Last week Rank announced that...
...have a power of poetry which is the despair of all the rest of the world. They produce from time to time personalities transcending ordinary limitations. Then they drive other nations to a frenzy by patronizing these archangels who have come among them, and by indicating that any ordinary Englishman could do better if he liked to take the trouble." Nonetheless, the Englishman "likes to think of himself as a sheep; and so great is his artistry . . . that he frequently deceives not only himself but others...