Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close student of his tough, gunpowdery great-grandfather, he came to doubt that the first Duke ever uttered the sonorous bit of snobbery so dear to generations of British orators: "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." So last month he did what any Englishman would do under the circumstances: he wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. In it, he offered to pay ?50 to the National Playing Fields Association if anyone could prove when and by whom the words were first said...
Died. Arthur Margetson, 54, British-born actor (Claudia, The Play's the Thing) who spent 34 years shuttling back & forth between London and Broadway productions, liked best the role of a humorous, stuffed-shirted Englishman, which he played in his last Manhattan appearance (1950's Clutterbuck); of cancer; in London...
...part-time novelist, Author Mathew, Roman Catholic archbishop and Apostolic Delegate for Eastern and Western British Africa, is less charitable than his fellow novelist, Cardinal Spellman (The Foundling). A 49-year-old Englishman who started out to be a Navy officer, he shows nearly as much contempt as compassion for his cast of travelers. He wastes no time storytelling. Instead, having his characters where he wants them, he expertly lays bare their frustrations and the cheap ambitions that spur them on. When he brings them down with engine trouble, it is only to show how they disintegrate in adversity...
...University of Durham. Five years after Moonfleet, he wrote another adventure story, The Nebuly Coat, which the critics liked even better, but which did not sell nearly so well as the story of Johnnie Trenchard. It was Falkner's last fling as a novelist. Increasingly, like a sensible Englishman, he turned his attention to business. By 1915, he was chairman of the munitions firm of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. But by 1932, when he died, it was clear that it was Moonfleet, not munitions, that had won him a place in history...
...logic is bad, but it expresses the immemorial conviction of men who would rather be safe anywhere, even in hell, than be exposed to the unbearable danger of looking into their own consciences. Author Barker, Englishman and minor poet, has little skill in the novelist's trade, none at all in creating characters; yet sometimes his phrases light up dark corners of the human spirit...