Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walking on park lawns. A general from inflation-plagued Brazil was pleased that "during the five weeks I was in New York the prices stayed the same." The attention given a family traveling with children is a boon. "You could take 50 restaurants in London," says one Englishman, "and not find half a dozen with high chairs." Almost to a man, visitors are irked by the difficulty in buying that tourists' essential, postage stamps. Where they find them in commercial machines, it strikes them as almost immoral that a quarter will purchase only four 50 stamps. The Greyhound...
...some Romans began sporting them an imperial edict was issued against their use. As late as 1814 the Duke of Wellington was refused admission to his club because he wore trousers. Cuffs on trousers first appeared in New York City near the end of the 19th century after an Englishman on his way to a fashionable wedding was caught in a downpour and turned up his trousers to keep them dry. Men at the wedding assumed they were the latest style, and many rushed to their tailors to get some of the same...
...first book with English illustrations ever prepared for printing. They formed the first nine books of a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Books 10 through 15, unillustrated, were given to Cambridge University by Diarist Samuel Pepys 278 years ago. Put together by William Caxton, the 15th century Englishman who first set English in movable type, the first half of the Ovid manuscript brought a record auction price of $252,000 at Sotheby's last week from Lew Feldman, a rare-book dealer in New York, who has recently picked up such prizes as T. S. Eliot...
...oscillated in the Atlantic. Malcolm Bradbury's Stepping Westward is the latest fictional flotsam on this tide. It is a pointed little farce, and as cultural anthropology it offers a thoughtful thesis to such British and American minds as can rise above the trousers-pants hassle. The Englishman in the U.S., it demonstrates, is no longer a comic figure known for his arrogance, social pretension, accent or what not. He is a switched-off, not-with-it fellow whose vague uncertainties about the liberal vision of life reflect the diminished horizons of the once Empire, and whose ineptitude...
...novel is a lot of fun, but it is hard to make a real hero emerge from a blizzard of custard pies; Kingsley Amis (One Fat Englishman), scored better in the U.S. Besides, not many native readers will share the conviction that American activities are inherently comic because they are un-English...