Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irishman from the Bronx and two Englishmen heard a pistol shot, bolted down a cinder path, glided over wooden barriers (2½ ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished...
...Stay-at-home Englishmen have never seen a "forest" in the U. S. sense, but use this term to describe any large wooded estate, often with turf underfoot as smooth and impeccable as a lawn tennis court...
...Wembley Stadium near London, King-Emperor George V and 90,000 rooters also saw a socker game last week. Eleven Welshmen from Cardiff defeated eleven Englishmen from Woolwich Arsenal (London), 1 to 0, thereby winning the championship of. Great Britain. No riots ensued, even though 250,000 people crowded around the stadium hoping...
Taxpayers. Though the German taxpayer will pay about twice what he proportionately paid in taxes just prior to the War, his taxes are even now slightly less than those of Englishmen, who take a rueful pleasure in the boast: "Britons pay the heaviest taxes in the world...
...Robert Peel-the great-grandson of the great Sir Robert. In 1920 she married him, became mistress of haloed Drayton Hall. Her fame spread through two continents as the frolicsome dancer of Chariot's Revue. But her husband, neither statesman nor footlight celebrity remained one of those Englishmen with 10,000 acres and nothing particular to do. A Peel must do something, so last week young Sir Robert announced the opening of a dance hall (roadhouse) near Drayton Manor, which he will manage with his wife's assistance. And last week, his wife, Beatrice, now the first comedienne...