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When his American teammates proposed the normal noon-time nourishment for red-blooded Americans, McDonald's, Crimson center Adrian Tew, the sole Englishman in Harvard's fifteen, reminded them of their manners (quitting the field and the Princeton-Columbia game in progress in favor of the Big Mac constitutes the height of discourtesy) and their morals with a resounding an swer: "Eat beer...
...breast: Last year Englishman Dave Wilkie beat four American Olympians. This year should be a real dogfight between Wilkie and Henken...
...evening at 5. The doctor was a sixtyish man with white hair, "really quite a cross person." But where she was concerned, he had the patience to endure tantrums during which she might bite his drinking glasses, break his furniture or tear up a favorite book. Once she stripped. Englishman and Englishwoman both agreed the performance was "boring...
...rest of the corps. He was in La Paz on vacation from Nicaragua, where he was working. He told me of his experiences while in Bolivia, and how he'd been shot at during the time of the coup. We talked about Che and why he had failed. The Englishman, looking at his watch, decided to order another banana split...
...Englishman who met Casement in Chicago, during an American tour to raise funds against Britain described him as "a fanatic of the type of Mazzini ... great in the beginning of Italy's risorgimento, and so greatly mistaken in the end." His Irish American host in New York said flatly that Sir Roger had become "mentally unbalanced." Cracked or not, Casement was confident that a victorious Germany would benignly liberate Ireland. He made his way to Berlin, where he soon found that the German government consisted of "swine and cads." His attempt to recruit Irish soldiers captured by the Germans...