Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Englishmen came over on the "Queen Mary" with the rugby team, and will play a graduate team tomorrow. The varsity team will be represented by A. W. Sulloway '37, G. B. Blake '38, F. H. Appleton 3rd '38, H. DeKruif '37, and C. S. Oakman...
...Saturday last week some 5,000,000 Englishmen were playing soccer. Almost 1,000,000 more were watching their favorite professional teams perform. For most of the week, nearly half the population of England, hoping to forecast the results of Saturday's big-league matches, had been nibbling pencils, marking numerals and crosses on little printed slips. Saturday night, three out of four Englishmen were gathered around radios to hear the results of the games. For soccer is the most popular sport in England...
...generation Englishmen have played with the idea of mounting one airplane on the back of another on the theory that if they could be separated in midair it would "solve the fundamental problem of launching long-range aeroplanes with a full load . . . eliminate the take-off altogether." In 1916, an air force lieutenant named Day crudely accomplished this by lifting a Bullet scout plane from the wing of a Porte flying boat. Since then blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Robert Hobart Mayo, Cambridge graduate, airplane designer, and technical adviser to Imperial Airways, has worked on the idea. Backed by Imperial...
...since more than a year ago when crowds of milling Englishmen chanted "We want King Edward!" had stodgy Downing Street seen such a demonstration. Thousands of London's Irishmen and Irishwomen packed the pavement before the black door of No. 10. The rousing strains of southern Ireland's republican anthem, A Soldier's Song, swelled from the lusty throats. Staid civil servants in black jackets and striped trousers poked their heads out Whitehall's windows. Suddenly the singing ceased. "Up Dev!'' roared the crowds. "A republic-no less!" A tall, gaunt, smiling man appeared...
...meeting got off on the right foot when de Valera found on the British side of the long Cabinet table his trusted friend, "straight shooting'' Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late James Ramsay MacDonald, and Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Regarded by Englishmen as a cold-as-a-fish lawyer, Sir John is known to Irishmen as the husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find that de Valera no longer went off in rambling...