Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those familiar national caricatures, says John Treasure, managing director of British Market Research Bureau Ltd., "the stereotype of the typical Englishman is changing; the 'new Englishman' lives in a home with central heating, drinks canned beer or soda pop while watching television (having just eaten a wimpyburger), has corn flakes for breakfast, washes with Lux soap, dries his hands on a paper towel and has an ice-cream bar for a snack...
Replying to the Englishman's charge, Kilson asserted that "things have either changed quite radically at Harvard since I left there in June, 1959, or else Mr. Hawke's information is about a decade out of date...
...Senate term (1939-45) ranting against New Deal policies, foreign and domestic, lauded Hitler for destroying a conspiracy of "international bankers," in the course of a losing primary fight (1944) against Wayne Morse refuted a charge of antiSemitism: "Now why would I be antiSemitic? My own father was an Englishman. I have relatives in England"; of a heart attack; in Eugene...
...states of mind that helped produce the 1914 war. Into the ship-shaped house of an aged English sea captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop, like creatures into the Ark, a ruling-class woman, a femme fatale, a shy, dashing Englishman, a footless, philandering one, an upstart capitalist, his kind, downtrodden factotum-even an unexpected burglar. At the opposite end, in the assemblage, from grizzled old Captain Shotover is bright-eyed young Ellie Dunn, standing for the future as he for the past, proving most malleable as he is most...
...blue police Volkswagen bus pulled up in front of the courthouse in Winterthur, Switzerland one day last week, a ripple of anticipation ran through the waiting crowd. "Here he comes," yelled a photographer-and out stepped a curly-haired Englishman, bound for the most sensational trial Switzerland had seen in years. But the prisoner's names -Donald Hume alias Donald Brown alias John Stephen Bird-were not on the tips of Swiss tongues alone. In Britain, Hume is Scotland Yard's most notorious enemy -and just about the slipperiest the Yard has ever...