Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since most Englishmen honestly believe that collectively they are the true font of Conscience and Righteousness, the words spoken by President Calvin Coolidge, last fortnight, stirred a deep tidal wave of English indignation, which was still rising last week. Seldom before have so many hundreds and then thousands of letters poured in upon the Times-famed Safety Valve of Empire Passions. Finally with the appearance of England's characteristic "weekly reviews," the weighty and considered indignation of British best minds was hurled against Calvin Coolidge...
...Shrewd Englishmen of "The City"-London's "Wall Street"-weighed carefully what was said by Britain's chemical tycoon, Lord Melchett, upon his return last week from hobnobbing in U. S. tycoon-dom (TIME, Oct. 29). "American prosperity is based upon two factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly...
...Dept. of Commerce. He was recalling the ancient and modern history of the commodity of rubber. Columbus, exploring the island of Hispaniola, was the first to see natives playing with balls which seemed to bound miraculously to Heaven. Three centuries later, Chemist Joseph Priestley advised his fellow Englishmen that the miraculous substance would erase pencil-markings, might well be called "rubber." It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat. And in 1839, U. S.-born Charles Goodyear dropped rubber (mixed with sulphur) on a hot stove...
...Englishmen will probably also meet a combined Princeton also meet a combined Princeton Cornell team during their visit in this country, but no definite plans have been announced...
...designing strangers, Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, had not reckoned on the many patriotic Dutchmen, particularly the cosmopolite Deterding. He sped over from London. When the bidding began the potency of Dutch oil, of Dutch nurture, became plain. The Letter by Gerard Terboch stood on the easel, a slight canvas in which a pretty maiden is seen writing a billet-doux. There was a fusillade of bidding. Sir Henri pounced on the foreigners, kept raising the bid "dix mille guilders" at a leap. He triumphed at $127,600. It all happened again with Jacob Ochtervelt's The Oyster Eaters. For this...