Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they have no ability to meet the new conditions. And therein lies the essential reason for the economic prosperity of America and the depression of England, with its resultant Labor agitation. Instead of theorizing and regretting new conditions. America meets them, and makes the best of them, while Englishmen are at a loss for a course of action...
Scotchmen, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Jews, Gentiles, Mormons, Spaniards, Venetians, Egyptians, every nation who has a distinctive dress (excepting the sophomores) were portrayed...
...welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
...Englishmen are coming from Hanover, N. H., where they, debated with the Dartmouth College team on Monday night on the same question which they argue with the University speakers tomorrow evening. The subject of the debate will be: Resolved, That this house opposes the growing tendency of government to invade the rights of individuals...
Defeat of an attempted bank robbery--American style--in Liverpool has resulted in odious comparisons. One gathers that the British press believes the police system of the United States to be an object of both tears and laughter. They do these things, say the Englishmen, much better abroad. American police are well trained they admit, and they admit, well equipped; but with half the equipment the British manage to get twice the results. Somewhere, somehow, there has been a mistake...