Word: englishman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suggestion of a plot his stories, if they can be called such, do present a series of vivid and intensely vital experiences. "I am an Armenian," he says. "I have no idea what it is like to be an Armenian or what it is like to be an Englishman or Japanese or anything else. I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive. This is the only thing that interests me greatly. This and tennis." And he does succeed admirably in many instances in communicating his conception of life, though it is often a morbid and distorted...
...Seaboard Air Line. Her mother, the late Alice Montague Warfield was famed for her beauty and charm. In 1916 Daughter Wallis married Lieut, (now Commander) E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U.S.N., divorced him nine years later. She went abroad with her mother, renewed friendship with Ernest A. Simpson, an Englishman who graduated from Harvard in 1919. They were married in 1926 in London, where Mrs. Simpson has resided ever since. Last spring Mrs. Simpson visited the U. S.. attended the races at Pimlico with her aunt, Mrs. Buchanan Merryman. Another aunt is Mrs. George Barnett of Washington, widow...
Lawrence and Frieda were a strangely assorted pair. Lawrence was a lower-class Englishman, Frieda a German aristocrat. When they first met, he was a poverty-laden unknown of 26, she a settled matron of 31, with three children, married to a Nottingham University professor. Lawrence went to tea, to call on the professor. He met Frieda instead, and they fell in love almost at first sight. Frieda tried to have an affair with him, but he insisted on all or nothing; finally she left her husband and children, went to Germany with Lawrence. Her family were horror-struck...
...quotation speaks for itself. For a person of such undoubted financial acumen, to make such a definitely favorable prediction is indeed encouraging, the more so when one realizes that the person is an Englishman, at a period when the English as a whole regard the American experiment as a groping, blundering attempt to follow in their footsteps. It is devoutly to be hoped that this leaflet will prove to be another feather in the already well-bedecked cap of Mr. Angas...
Sailing a triangular course, Endeavour jumped early into the lead, held it serenely down the 10-mile broad reach to the southward. In the beat to the windward, Rainbow with brilliant tacks that time & again outmaneuvered the Englishman, showed its stern to the challenger to round the second mark almost three minutes ahead. Despite a great flash of savage speed in the home stretch, Endeavour was unable to overcome the three minute handicap, trailed home by 55 sec. Because the protest flags were fluttering from both masts at the finish-why, no one immediately knew-what would have been...