Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. Colonel Lewis Ellis, assistant U.S. air attaché, caught a well-dressed Briton at work on his 1950 Buick. But when he got near, the colonel saw that the Englishman was scrubbing the car clean and had already scrubbed several others. "I was so mad when I saw what the Communists had done," he explained, "that I went straight out and bought a tin of paint remover...
...each nation in good standing, so that delegates heard representative new music from each nation, if not always the best music newly written. Critics felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled even the radicals. One of the more conservative was reminded...
...immediate bombardment unless the King would engage in writing to withdraw his troops from the Spanish army, and to observe in future a strict neutrality. The Neapolitan court, wholly unprepared for the defense of the city, endeavored to elude the demand by prolonging the negotiation. But the gallant Englishman...laid his watch upon the table in his cabin, and told the negotiators that their answer must be given within the space of an hour, or that the bombardment should begin. This proceeding, however railed at by the diplomatists as contrary to all form and etiquette, produced a result such...
...anybody in Canterbury's highly impressed audience of 500 had seen the girls a few hours earlier, the disciplined performance might have seemed even more impressive. Instead of a raptly dedicated chorus, an Englishman would have seen a crowd of average-looking American girls (with names like Foy, Gallaudet, Zuromskis, Lutov, Pierson, Schmidt, Saltonstall) scuffling their low-heeled shoes, swinging their shoulder bags, gaping at the sights...
What was wrong with the Italians? "They wave their 'ands when they talk," groused one Englishman. "They wink at the women and shampoo their 'air." Worst of all, said a squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping...