Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight months ago with a picture of his wife as a little girl. "It's nice," their friends said, "but you could never paint one of a bearded man as a boy." Vertès accepted the challenge, sat down to paint a juvenile Bernard Shaw. "When an Englishman or an Irishman has a beard," he figured, "there must be a reason. I looked very well at grown-up photographs of Shaw, and I found his bad little mouth and sharp little chin. I painted him at the age of twelve so I could show his arrogance...
...William Knox D'Arcy, an adventurous Englishman who had amassed a fortune in the Australian gold fields, scented a new bonanza. He paid Iran's Shah $20,000 for a 60-year monopoly on oil production in five-sixths of Iran, promised him an additional 16% of the profits. Seven years later, D'Arcy's prospectors brought in a gusher. In 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. (renamed Anglo-Iranian in 1935) was founded, has been spouting profits ever since. It built the world's largest refinery at Abadan, became a top-ranking crude...
...payoff question was: "What famous Englishman had this to say of Lord Chesterfield? 'This man, I thought, was a Lords'," Samuel Johnson," was the correct answer...
...Coronets) Guinness gives a superb reading of a long, eloquent speech in the House of Commons, turning the mudlark's adventure into an affair of state. Most of the time, however, Guinness plays with a mincing air that suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven-year-old Actor Ray, who is altogether winning as the grimy orphan who wants a peek at the mother of the British Empire...
...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Gary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...