Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London restaurant, a tweedy Englishman remarked to his dinner companion: "It's a peculiar thing about Americans, they are always letting off machine guns by mistake . . . They used to in Chicago, they did when I was with them in France, and now in Koje. Trigger-happy, I believe they call...
...December 1936, a 33-year-old Englishman named Eric Blair arrived in Barcelona to have a look at Spain's civil war and write some pieces about it. A radical in politics and an antiFascist, he decided to fight instead, and enlisted in a militia outfit. Seven months later, badly used up and sporting the scars of a near-fatal bullet hole through his neck, he went back to England and wrote a book about his experience. It was not a popular book because it was antiCommunist, and the fashion then was to cheer the Communist-controlled "Popular Front...
...burst of reader response tore a few holes in the professor's ivy. Publicly and in a flood of angry letters, he was denounced as an atheist or worse. Walter Stace, an Englishman, was shocked. He had never fancied himself an out & out enemy of religion. As a young man, he had studied briefly for the ministry while at Dublin's Trinity College. In 20 years as a British colonial officer in Ceylon, he had formed a lively admiration for Buddhism and the Hindu religions...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...