Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a generation, a shambling creature with a human skull and an apelike jaw was known to schoolchildren, Sunday-supplement readers and serious anthropologists as "the first Englishman." He was "Piltdown man," and he was supposed to have lived anywhere from 750,000 to 950,000 years ago. Last week three British scientists, armed with modern chemistry, demolished Piltdown...
...partly of landlords who dreaded that Mary would give back to the Church the rich monastic properties which Henry VIII had shared out. When the "old" service returned to the parish churches, London was strewn with antipapist pamphlets and broadsheets; men gathered together for armed rebellion. And many an Englishman who had welcomed , a return to the old ways hesitated in insular fear when he saw, on Mary's one hand, the long-absent papal legate and, on the other, her new husband, Prince Philip of Spain...
Robert Casper's sketch of a prissy, tantrum-throwing spoiler and Robert Flether's portrait of a stuffy Englishman are also twisted to caricature...
...Books (35?) For a country with about as many English-speaking people as North Carolina, South Africa exports a high quota of readable novels. The latest on this fall's list is Daphne Rooke's Ratoons. Novelist Rooke (Mittee) takes in the conflict of Zulu against Hindu, Englishman against Boer on a turn-of-the-century sugar plantation, but the drama of racial tensions serves mainly as a backdrop for a melodrama of personal relationships...
Spiers was still defiant: "Every penny we had has gone into this fight." Out of work now and ailing, he was keeping his family on $10.50 a week. "I shall stand by my rights. I am an Englishman and I fought for my country . . ." Mrs. Spiers was with him to the bitter end. "I'll take Eva back to school," she said, "in slacks. Then it is up to the police...