Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Locker -Lampson (Tory sponsor of the motion) : "The time has come to stop making freeborn Englishmen the helots of a slave State...
Quoth the doughty "Temperance" to news gatherers: "I think there must be a large number of Russians in London because I sell so much vodka here. Englishmen are beginning to acquire a taste for it, too. Just at first it sometimes puts them under the table...
...need only point out," shouted Chao-Hsin Chu, "that the International Anti-Opium Association, which furnished this alleged disclosure, is directed by ENGLISHMEN! Draw your own conclusions, gentlemen. . . . If you can find a single man in China in whose breast there does not beat anti-British feeling, he is not a Chinese...
Into the Cabinet session was brought news that the printers employed by the Daily Mail had struck rather than print an anti-labor editorial (TIME, May 10), thus attacking a "right" which most Englishmen consider fundamental: "freedom of the press." The Cabinet decided, on the basis of such evidence as was at its disposal (naturally an unguessable quantity to outsiders), that this attack upon the freedom of the press had been made at the instigation or with the approval of the Trade Union Council. Upon this premise, a further decision was made and announced: that negotiations would not be resumed...
England's gypsy tribes, many of them, are unusual in this respect: unlike the nomadic folk of other countries they are not Romanies* but Englishmen. During famines and plagues and-as in the legendary case of Robin and his merrie men-during political upheavals, poor townsfolk or villagers have taken to the open road, the woods and the fields to scrape, beg or poach a living as best they can. England's winters are not severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today...