Word: englishman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then she topples into the bed of Lieut. Colonel Rodney Savage, 13th Gurkha Rifles, who is as effective as Tom Swift in dealing with men and more effective in dealing with women. In his arms Victoria finds "peace" and "ecstasy." But since the colonel is an Englishman, that is not enough. At novel's end, Victoria goes back to her bumbling Anglo-Indian and her own people at Bhowani Junction, where "the lines spread out to every Indian horizon for them...
After his retirement, he lived quietly in the country, writing books and articles and intermittently swooping down on human fatuity with the kind of epigram that kept him well established as one of the last castings of a great mold of Englishman : crankily individualistic, knottily paradoxical, brilliantly articulate. "I know as much about the afterlife as you−nothing," Dr. Inge told an interviewer last July. "I don't even know there is one . . . I have no vision of 'heaven' or a 'welcoming God.' I do not know what I shall find. I must wait...
...faintest of mocking quotation marks. Is it sex on the beach they want? Huston crams the frame so full of Gina fore and Jennifer aft that it looks like a wish-you-were-here postcard from Coney Island. The rifled dispatch case? When the four villains rummage through the Englishman's box, they find nothing but a letter to a minor colonial official and a hot water bottle−and are humiliatingly caught in the act to boot...
First to get a peek at the gallery were an American and a Briton, each of whom had bought more than $14,000 worth of Farouk's stamp collection. The American marveled: "Boy, this is certainly some collection of dirt!" Mused the Englishman: "I cannot understand why the monarch, who was surrounded by so much that was desirable, found pleasure in such obscenity." Meanwhile, four city fathers of Venice demanded that Farouk be kicked out of his Italian exile because he offends "national dignity and morality...
...matter of fact, the Persian music used there was composed by an Englishman. But since the Persians can claim so little in the cultural output known to most Westerners, we ought not to grudge them title to this music any more than the English grudge the Edward Fitzgerald (or we begrudge the English their claim to Handel--for poor old England has produced so few great composers to swell her national pride...