Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gordon Richards is a tiny (4 ft. 11½ in., 112 Ibs.) and well-beloved Englishman of 49 who has ridden more winning horses (4,670) than any other jockey alive or dead. When Gordon Richards' name turned up last week on Queen Elizabeth's honors list, with word that he was to receive the first knighthood ever conferred on a jockey, millions of Britons beamed with sentiment. Five days later they made his horse Pinza a 5-1 co-favorite to win the one great race in which Jockey Richards had never had a winner...
...slaves in a batch, simply because they were too sick to work. When the Indians murdered a white man, his brother set out some tins of poisoned alcohol in a jungle clearing for bait, and the next day surveyed his catch: 80 dead Indians. Fawcett knew of a sick Englishman who, because he lay still, was assumed by the Indians to be dead; having got this idea in their heads, they decided that his groans were those of his spirit, and buried him alive...
Doctors and officials in the Hygiene Department swear by Murphy, and when necessary, Murphy swears at them, as well as his wounded subjects. Usually, his frankness gets results, as in the classic case of the Brooklyn Englishman who injured his shoulder slightly in a house football game...
Mellow & Gracious. Queen Mary came to embody that enduring sense of the past that lives in the present, which is the Englishman's special love. As the court went into a 30-day mourning period (which will end before the coronation), one who strongly shares this sense of past & present spoke her requiem...
...think the phrase 'gutter press' could have been invented for the modern English tabloid The British . . . took the American tabloid and they lowered their sights. They de-improved it. It is something that has to be seen to be believed ... The curious thing is that, when an Englishman imitates an American tabloid, he is five times worse than anything an American would tolerate...