Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans make up ground on their foreign counterparts with eagerness for a newly found game. Oakland Stompers Assistant Coach Jack Hyde, an Englishman, admires the enthusiasm of Americans and their willingness to learn. "They go out and give you a 100% effort for the full 90 minutes...
...Ripper) is a London bobby; Los Angeles Cop Joe Wambaugh only recently quit the force. In the tradition of Erie Stanley Gardner, many are lawyers, notably Harold Q. Masur (Bury Me Deep), Francis ("Mike") Nevins Jr. (Publish and Perish), Joe Hensley (A Killing in Gold), and, of course, Englishman Michael Gilbert, creator of the Patrick Petrella series and, be it noted, the author of Raymond Chandler's will. The remarkable P.D. James has a full-time job in the criminal division of Britain's Home Office. Other practitioners also work as journalists, critics, doctors and even perhaps...
Player's great success in the Masters over the years is uniquely fitting. The course was designed by Alister Mackenzie, an Englishman who had fought in the Boer War. Mackenzie was deply impressed with the Boers' ability to consistently ambush the British forces because of their familiarity with the terrain. When it came time to design Augusta, he was inspired by the subtle techniques of camouflaging he had learned in South Africa...
...vapours: voices of Celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard, & their forms more distinctly seen . . . Now Begins a New life, because another covering of Earth is shaken off. I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive." Outside the madhouse or the monastery, no Englishman alive then-and no European of comparable genius-considered his life in quite this way. Blake, who never thought he was a dreamer, meant everything he painted to have the instructive force of revelation. Each drawing and poem-whether small and limpid, like the Songs of Innocence or his woodcut illustrations...
...figured that nothing would be more Victorian than the royal underpants, so when he spotted them at a London auction he laid out a bloomin' $320 for the bloomers. Besides, patriotic to the nines, he "wanted to preserve part of England's heritage and to keep an Englishman's hands on Queen Victoria's drawers." She would not have been amused...