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...Englishman's sneering laugh...
Professor Banse concluded: "We confess that it gives us pleasure to meditate on the destruction that must sooner or later overtake this proud and seemingly invincible nation. . . . The above sentences would appear monstrous, nay rank blasphemy, to every Englishman and Englishwoman in the world-if they ever saw them...
...intimately perceived, among its inhabitants, that tell the whole fate and meaning of a nation. The Lohrkes' regretful opinion: that England is at once dying, dead and badly in need of burial. They offer some somber and eloquent notes: on the deep feudal loyalty of the rural Englishman like that of a dog to his master; on the fungoid passivity of the English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people...
...Bahamas, to recoup his family's fortunes. When his father, Old Joe Chamberlain, as Colonial Secretary, was working to bring the Boers to terms, Neville was learning the hardware business in Birmingham and interesting himself in health work. The age of Victoria molded him into a typical Englishman of his time-not a Kipling Englishman, but a Galsworthy Soames Forsyte. Neville Chamberlain's mind was once described as "the type which was considered advanced and enlightened at the close of the last century." He was a competent Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1915-16), but of his efforts...
...Berlin specializes in skits such as Schmidt & Smith, wherein Smith, a gouty Englishman, played by Lord Haw-Haw, who drops his baritone voice to basso range for the part, is forever getting bested by calm, confident German Schmidt...