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...pitifully to attract such men as the hard, sly, bumptious Ivy Peters. She passed out of Niel's life, leaving him full of sorrow and anger that so inimitable a creature should come to such base uses. Later he heard she had married again-a rich, cranky old Englishman, who lived in South America -and in that marriage recovered for a few years before she died a little of the luxury and spaciousness that seemed to belong to her. And Niel was glad. For, as he came to middle age, he realized that though he had known many women...
Israel Zangwill, Englishman of letters: "The Jewish Tribune printed a list of the twelve outstanding Jews of the world, as chosen by vote of its readers. Albert Einstein, German physicist, was considered relatively the most outstanding. Chaim Weizmann, mann, English chemist, perfector of TNT, head of the Zionist movement, was second. I was third...
...marital problems with an engaging indelicacy, that it smartly amusing. Added footnotes must contain the intelligence that Miss Bordoni sings four songs with her customary success; that Bruce McRae plays her leading man; that one Eric Blore, a recent acquisition from London, does the ultimate silliest as a silly Englishman...
Fifty-three countries sent 817 delegates to a twelve-day conference at Portschach (southern Austria) to discuss The Place of the Boy in the Nations of the World. The official language, in the words of an Englishman, Basil Matthews, was " English, or perhaps I should rather say, American." The conference was deeply stirred by reports of boy labor under terrible conditions in the developing factory system of the Far East...
...this be done with a bit of decent quietness, don't you know ?" This is an excellent example of stupid and slovenly reporting. The Earl does not talk that way; the special correspondent of the Times made the Earl say what he (the correspondent) thought an Englishman would...