Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...object of this lavish praise is a lean and elegant Englishman who divides his time between the sun-swept luxury of the Riviera and the box-hedged comfort of his country home in Kent. He has a pretty and helpful wife, and earns the income, as he puts it, of "a high-grade civil servant." He appears to be almost as much at home in society as in his studio, and is not averse to designing rugs, or painting occasional portraits of the great...
...Edith Wharton's Madame de Treymes, a French woman who is not as bad as she seems undoes an American who is almost too good to be true. In Galsworthy's The Apple Tree, a middle-aged Englishman remembers a long-ago love affair and the dead Welsh girl who was too innocent-hearted for his propriety. In Page's The Burial of the Guns, the men of a Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern...
...long-faced, lanky figure of John Foster Dulles was familiar. So was that of worldlywise, world-weary little Georges Bidault. The new face at the diplomatic table in Washington this week would be that of a lean Englishman who is pinch-hitting for Anthony Eden. He is the Tory Party's hidden siege gun in foreign affairs...
...many a well-read fisherman will recognize, the author is the learned Englishman, Izaak Walton, who grew tired of the life of an ironmonger, retired to the country and took up the contemplative pursuits of literature and fishing. His book, The Compleat Angler, originally published just 300 years ago, was republished this month, following at least 200 other editions, by the Stackpole Co. of Harrisburg, Pa., a city that had not been thought of when Author Walton (1593-1683) wrote his bestseller...
...Visiting Englishman. International peace, based on Anglo-American cooperation, was a favorite Noyes theme even before World War I. In 1911 he went to the U.S. on his first lecture tour, and in 1914 became Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton. Some of Noyes's best anecdotes belong to his periods...