Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies...
...asks one Englishman of another. "How do you do?" answers the other. They are not questions, and yet a writer, who is both introducer and the introduced, must try to answer them. Bates never does...
...chunky, blond teen-ager had only entered the tournament for experience, but when he suddenly found himself in semifinals, he decided he had half a chance. When he reached the finals, he took on an added responsibility: he was the only Englishman left, and no Englishman had won the British amateur championship in 17 years...
...these days of penurious peers and vanishing stately homes, how can one tell whether an Englishman is a genuine member of the Upper Class? Last week, in a slim anthology of aristocratic manners edited by aristocratic Novelist Nancy Mitford (Noblesse Oblige; Hamish Hamilton), England got an answer that has managed to stir up everyone from Novelist Graham Greene to Actor John Loder. Not since Humorist Stephen Potter launched the cult of gamesmanship had the nation been so obsessed as it was over the difference between U (Upper Class...
...most "profound," and perhaps the most uninteresting, of the assembly is a British diplomat named Conway, played by Lew Ayres. A dedicated type, Conway has risked his life to pry another young Englishman, an aging dance team, and a female missionary of uncertain age and denomination loose from a Chinese Communist prison. He and his charges almost get killed, though, when their plane crashes in the wilds of Tibet. And then they are rescued by a group of mystical monks--also of uncertain denomination--who conduct them to a hidden valley populated by deliriously happy and uniformly muscular peasants...