Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difference of opinion with the principal about who was running the school"), he got a job as a copy boy on the Sun, and broke into print writing editorials at $7 a column. One day he read in John Stuart Mill's autobiography that the great Englishman had read Plato before he was ten. Not having read Plato at 15 made Adler "feel like a savage." Then & there he drew a pay advance and bought Plato's Republic. Immediately afterwards he decided 1) to go to college, 2) to become a philosopher...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
Virulent, cajoling, sarcastic, he went at the Prime Minister with a barbed compliment ("I freely admit that [he] is the most articulate Englishman that has ever lived . . . How did it come about that he was so much misunderstood?") and also with his coalminer's pickax: "His ego now fills the whole cosmos." Violently he played the Bevanite line that Britain's rearmament and her U.S. alliance carry her toward war. ". . . Behind the guise and façade of the United Nations, the Americans are waging an ideological war with weapons against the Soviet Union...
...bank. The idea was to show what nonsense banks and checks are. And also, how difficult it is to make any law that cannot be turned to nonsense. The English banker cashed the check and, when it returned through the clearing office, the brandy was intact. The Englishman did not see the point of such a joke, but he understood his duty...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...