Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said) that the Emperor reportedly continued for some time to find reconciliation upon the broad fields of Beauregard. But as time passed, the "countess" (her title was never confirmed) devoted more and more of her life to good works, flowers and tapestry. For convenience sake she married an Englishman named Trelawny, thus acquiring at last a good name, but still, out of old habit, using phony ones. She died in 1865-and her tombstone carries incorrect dates...
...Keats backwards and forwards has been the patroness of all true romantics. The unattainable, visionary woman dominated Sansom's novel The Loving Eye (TIME, April 15), and now she crops up again like a bad guinea. The story is a little shocker of how "this man Greville, traveller, Englishman, thirtyish, a sort of student on remittance, sitting now cooling off in his little Spanish police-cell, tried again to piece together in his hot red mind what in all strange hell had happened." He is tantalized by a fleeting vision of beauty-a girl he thinks he once loved...
...Though there was little dramatic continuity to Boswell's massive chronicle, the scenes that Omnibus selected-a rowdy night at Drury Lane, a fashionable gathering at Mrs. Thrale's home, a packed Old Bailey courtroom-were charged with both drollery and drama. For, more than any other Englishman, Sam Johnson raised "a life of talk to the level of a life of action...
Pretensions & Spitballs. Author Wilson's view of life may sometimes seem like that of an undertaker assessing the most likely customer, but there is no denying the sneering precision of his observations. U.S. readers, without suffering the Englishman's special anguish which comes from a feeling that he is improperly dressed, may acknowledge the deadly accuracy of some of Wilson's catarrhy spitballs. One character sneers at his pretentious brother: "Ah, I see we have a new class now. There used to be those who had the tele [TV] and those who were above...
Despite excellent forward play by Englishman Jim Cooper and senior Woody Harris, playing his first game for the team, it was not until the last ten minutes that the Crimson backs began getting their share of the ball...