Word: englishman
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...Called Horse is actually Lord Morgan, an aristocratic Englishman in search of big game in the forests of the New World, circa 1825. According to the laws of adventure fiction, a highborn Briton who wanders into the wilderness must undergo total metamorphosis before he can be let out. Lord Greystoke's scion, for instance, went into Africa as a cherubic infant and emerged as Tarzan of the Apes...
Morgan (Richard Harris) enters America as a white hunter and emerges as an Indian chief. His small hunting party is annihilated by Sioux who decide to keep the Englishman as a plaything. They dub him Horse, tether his neck and make him clop about on all fours. Just before his spirit splinters, Horse is beguiled by an Indian maiden named Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei). The only way to bed her is to wed her, he reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes...
...Hague. They boast that they have never had to vote on a decision. Jan Brouwer, the chairman, is a tall, heavily built Dutchman with a taste for modern art, and the vice chairman is David Barran, whose monocle and Savile Row tailoring make him seem the archetypal upper-class Englishman. Most of the managing directors are bilingual, and some speak three or four languages. The only American, Monroe ("Monty") Spaght, who is also chairman of the U.S.'s Shell Oil Co., notes: "When some companies call themselves multinational, I say the hell with it. They haven't finished...
Then Young, pewter mug in hand, proposed a toast to "a fine old building" and to the Mass Hall ghost, an omnipresent resident of the dorm. The ghost was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and since no one knows which side he was on. Mike Meddler '73, an Englishman, honored the ghost with a toast to "freedom" and Sam Burr '73, a Yankee, gave a toast to "independence...
...that it achieved anything," an Englishman said. "Nobody here understood the purpose, and we didn't get a chance to talk to any radicals about their specific complaints. Actually, the whole thing was rather juvenile...