Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention of tea seems to imply that the outraged visitors were Englishmen, although the rumor once persisted that Harvard oarsmen likewise delighted in an afternoon cup. The origin of the English love for tea is said to have been associated with the enclosure of the commons. With the loss of common rights went the ability to keep a family cow; and when milk was denied him the Englishman turned to tea. Be that as it may; the addition to tea does seem the distinguishing mark of the Englishman, just as the red strand once identified all the cordage...
...connection with this is the Jewish question. I made its acquaintance during the war. For me it is a question of race. Little as the Englishmen or Frenchmen can be permitted to obtain dominion over us, so little can the Jew be permitted. Freedom of the nation cannot be expected from him. Therefore I was against...
...report, this book gives the record of his amazingly versatile and far-flung career. An early passion for travel sent him to Tunis; he was meditating a trip to central Asia when one of those remarkable accidents which seemed always to be happening to intelligent and well-connected young Englishmen 40 years ago diverted him to the west coast of Africa, with a letter to Explorer Stanley in his pocket...
...band of earnest Englishmen ventured across the Atlantic to test the quality of the New World atmosphere. They liked it well enough to stay and to invite their friends to join them. Since that date it has been the fashion for prominent Englishmen to come, at least once in a lifetime, to pass judgment on America. England has never been able to forget that America is "new". As this is actually the case, one can hardly blame her for reflecting, like the Stoics, that youth is "the time of passion, when wisdom is not attainable." And when Mr. Zangwill charges...
Seldom does one find a program which embraces numbers so far apart as did the program of Mme. Gauthier. She began with a group of eighteenth century airs from Bellini, Perucchini, and the Englishmen, Purcell and Byrd, followed it with a group of modern Hungarian and German songs by Bartok and Hindemith, rose to a climax with a group of American jazz songs by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin, and descended through Schoenberg, Arthur Bliss and Milhaud to the end of her program...