Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to me that there is a great deal of vigor, vim and virility in American life, which expresses itself in devotion to a competitive free economy. The same spirit. I have a suspicion, displays itself, at least in the externals, in the religious sphere, which to an Englishman seems rather odd at times. On the lighter side, for example. I recall reading an advertisement in a newspaper which began. 'Is any church so air-conditioned cool as . . . ?' and members of the congregation were invited to share the delights of an iced fruit drink after the service...
...sounds less like a political address than a passage from a stream-of-consciousness novel. Almost invariably, it will include sharp attacks on some of India's most cherished beliefs-Hinduism ("a religion that enslaves you") or astrology ("silly nonsense"). Sometimes, with all the outrage of an Englishman or American whose patience has been tried beyond endurance by Indian backwardness and inefficiency, Nehru verbally assaults the crowd itself. "You are a people of cow-dung mentality, living in a cow-dung world," he bawled at one group early this year...
...Watery Mind. At this, "a number of bees quietly biding their time in the national bonnet sprang to life with an angry hum." Everyone, including the canon, knows that the nuns did skip over fires on Midsummer Eve, but this is nothing to the big fact that no Englishman -and a writer at that - can "put down" an Irish priest in his own parish. The Englishman, of course, cannot see the logic of this, and takes the unreasonable attitude that his own good name is at stake; he will not let the London newspaper pay off. The case sets...
...moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise...
...that Italians or Frenchmen like women. Englishmen don't ever really look at a woman. The greatest compliment Rex can pay me is to say that being with me is as good as being with a pal. He's a man's man, an Englishman...