Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heroine, a grave-eyed, gentle-born girl of 16 named Mira. When her brother Kitsamy brings an Oxford classmate, Richard Marlowe, home with him after graduation, Mira is so blushing-bold as to beg her mother to let her go on an unchaperoned swimming party with the handsome blond Englishman. Mama quickly scotches that outing, and British officialdom does the rest by ordering Richard off to his colonial duties...
...time of their last visit, a brief biography, whether it is "Mr. Fairfield" or "Jack." Once, flying to Britain for a meeting with Members of Parliament, he had aides get out photographs of the 120 M.P.s who had visited SHAPE and thumbnail biographies of each. Said an awed Englishman: "When he walked into Parliament, he knew every damn one of them, greeted them by name, adding remarks like 'How's your new daughter...
...years until she is suitably aged for his gourmet pallet. If it ever took itself any more seriously than a popping champagne cork, Aspects of Love would be silly and embarrassing. But in his neo-pagan way, Novelist Garnett, 63, is deftly amusing. He also demonstrates that if an Englishman really tries, he can be a lot more Gallic than the Gauls -at least on paper...
...industry and vigor made an immense paraphrase of the remark of another Tory Englishman. Samuel Johnson, who said that every man thinks meanly of himself for not having worn a red coat. But red coats were out in 1914. War meant mud, barbed wire and lice. Kipling's only son John was killed fighting with the Irish Guards in the battle of Loos. Rudyard Kipling got letters from all the world, and some exulted in the mean thought that the laureate of war had got his comeuppance. As a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, he promoted...
...Australians. To banish the old, bitter race names-pommy (Englishman), dago, hunky-Calwell invented the appellation "New Australian" for all immigrants. It stuck. A Good Neighbor movement was launched and hundreds of clubs formed to bring New Australians and Old Australians together. Assimilation has had its failures. The conservative British Medical Association opposes the registration of European doctors. The Trades and Labor Council, jealous custodian of half a century of labor gains, was outraged when hard-working immigrants refused to take "morning tea breaks" and volunteered to work in the rain. The Communists circularized dockworkers: "Most immigrant Bails are fascists...