Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty pension in the country-actually a small chaāteau done over. Drōle de ménage. The mistress of the establishment, a pretty spinster (Danielle Darrieux) of a certain age, is in love with the star boarder (Kenneth More), a dashing Englishman who instantly appoints himself acting uncle to the children, fighting their battles with the help and taking them for drives...
...childhood, down into a world without hockey, a world where she is suddenly evil and cruel as well as good and kind, where a furious mistress throws champagne in her face and a busboy (David Saire) tries to rape her and she herself in a girlish pique betrays the Englishman to the police, and only the next day discovers that she loves him. "I'll never love anyone else!" she sobs as the road seems suddenly to end in the middle of nowhere. But the Englishman smiles gently as he says: "Goodbye. Joss. This summer you've grown...
Sail Away (by Noël Coward) is carbon-copy Coward. All it needs is a carbon-copy audience from the dated musical comedies of the '20s and '30s. Sample dialogue: Englishman, in tweeds and monocle: "I've just found a cockroach in my bath." Steward: "I trust it was a British cockroach...
Leskov's life and career were anomalous in his century. He was one of the few Russian writers who did not come from the gentry; his background was lower middle class. There was a strong nonconformist influence on him through an aunt who had married an Englishman and followed the Quaker way of life. He never joined a political party and so, at one time or another, was reviled by both radicals and conservatives. Yet in his job as an assistant steward on the vast estates of the wealthy Perovsky and Naryshkin families, he traveled through his country...
Cruel to the Young. Many travelers in Britain conclude that the British are kinder to animals-parakeets, dogs and horses -than to children. A horrified Scandinavian told an Englishman, "You treat your children like dogs," and then had to explain that no compliment was intended. An official of the N.S.P.C.C. charges that cruelty to the young is common to every class, income group, and area: "All over the country children are ill-used, and too many parents think they have the right to beat their child unmercifully and beyond the limits any human being should be called upon to endure...