Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked an Englishman when he expected to get his new car, however, and he said 'three years.' He may have to wait six years, and as a result the used car market in Britain (there is up to a 100% purchase tax on new cars) is flourishing. I saw a 1936 Packard on sale for $4,000, and a 1947 Studebaker should bring around...
While the big orchestras thundered at night in Usher Hall, hundreds were braving the morning chill in dingy Freemasons' Hall to hear, at 11 a.m. each day, music played by a natty, pug-nosed Englishman named Boyd Neel, 43. With his "little orchestra" of ten violins, four violas, four cellos and three double basses, Neel was producing delicate performances of 18th Century and contemporary music that bigger orchestras couldn't hope to match. He was clearly the hit of Edinburgh's first week...
...author, Stephen Potter, is an Englishman who insists that he learned "gamesmanship" as late as 1931, and from another gamesman, instead of at his nanny's knee. Students of the British character may challenge this assertion. He was playing a match of tennis doubles against two athletic young men, Smith and Brown. Potter and his partner, the hardened metaphysician C.E.M. Joad, could scarcely touch the first two cannon balls served to them by Smith, and only by accident did the third one hit Joad's racket, rebounding wildly across the net and landing twelve feet out of court...
...most Spanish-speaking peoples, tinto is red wine; to Colombians, it is a tiny cup of black coffee-and a social institution that ranks with the Englishman's tea, the Argentine's mate and the Norteamericano's cocktails. Over their four or five daily tintos in drab little cafes (many cater exclusively to lawyers, bullfight fans, et al.), Colombians make & break governments, trade plantations and gold mines, brood about mistresses and write poems...
...engaged on the interminable task of trying to wave their wirespring hair"; a West Indian dandy traipsed through the squalid streets, sporting a feather boa. Then a white man, wearing a police uniform, hove into view-a squat, grey-haired man whom Wilson would barely have noticed if the Englishman at his elbow had not exclaimed: "Look . . . look at Scobie . . . Our great police force...