Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very curious," said the Englishman. "First the man calls out a number, and you put a bean on it. Then he calls another number and you put another bean on it . . . until at last a lady screams, 'Bingo!' and everybody else cries,'Aw, hell!' Very curious place, America...
...wounded and immediately gets the doting treatment of a popularity contest winner. What he does not know, and what his wardmates do know, is that he has only a few weeks to live. Hotly spurned and colorfully insulted, his fellow patients- an American, an Australian, a New Zealander, an Englishman and an African Basuto-find their sympathy giving way to acute dislike...
India-born Eric Blair, who died last fortnight (TIME, Jan. 30), was a frail, intense Englishman with an Eton education, a fine nose for humbug and a genius for exposing it. He was only 46 when he died, but in his lifetime he had seen too much of the super-humbug of totalitarianism to be complacent about it. No writer had done more to shatter the complacency of others. As George Orwell, the name he long intended to legalize, he had written a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction. Only six have been published in the U.S., but all of them...
...Nick Drujinenko, illegitimate son of a White Russian woman and an Englishman on the International Settlement police force in Shanghai, was 19 when the Communists swept into his native city last year. Afraid to stay, he stowed away for the U.S. on the American President liner General Gordon. He was found, put ashore in San Francisco, sent back across the Pacific on a freighter bound for Tientsin. He jumped ship in Japan, was surrendered to the U.S. Army and put back on the U.S.-bound General Gordon. Last week in San Francisco immigration authorities were waiting for another ship...
...than Hitler-r's bombs": there was no more whisky. Then a U.S.-bound vessel carrying 50,000 cases of Scotch ran aground off Todday's craggy harbor. All that stood between the parched islanders and a joyously illegal salvage job was the bumbling Englishman (Basil Radford) who, as the island's Home Guard captain, felt constrained to enforce the letter...