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...After a private audience with the King, the Comrade said of Edward VIII: "He asked me why we had to have a revolution in Russia, and I explained. He then asked why we had to execute the Tsar and I explained why. He impressed me as a mediocre young Englishman who reads one newspaper...
...suffered as the disillusioned Hannibal in The Road to Rome, he grieved as the erring husband in Cynara, he went through agonies as the betrayed Washington in Valley Forge and in Death Takes a Holiday his was the title role. In And Now Good-Bye the handsomely gaunt Englishman is once more presented as a noble and appealing character for whom things are very...
Salesman of News-Week to its charter investors was an ambitious Englishman, Capt. Thomas J. C. Martyn, a onetime foreign news editor of TIME. Through his second wife, a Cheney (silk), and other connections, and using TIME's record as a sales argument, he was able to enlist the following sums from the follow-ing principals for original and salvage financing...
...epistles to my Tuter here in Wadham. So now I hasten to express my genuine satisfaction of all that is Oxford including the high walls on which are cemented broken beer bottles, the Oxford girls and their black stockings and bicycles, the cold water in the hot showers, the Englishman's nonchalance and the bulls in Christ Church meadow. Certainly there are but few better places in the world where thinking is so high, romance so sweet, history so well preserved and living conditions so primitive. The English are Greek in spirit and English only in manners; and a happier...
...Harvard scandals are unknown; the undergraduates, if not always wise as serpents, are at all events harmless as doves." So says an article in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1868 introducing Harvard to the average Englishman...