Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship, democratic rights, while England itself remained in the grip of repression for another quarter-century. Pious Rhode Islanders believed it divine mercy resulting from their steadfast adherence to God's laws. But shrewd Professor Andrews thinks that Englishmen were already secretly opposed to religious repression, willing to experiment abroad in granting rights they would not concede at home...
...cocktails. That realistic Mrs. Simpson ever thought she could be Queen of England without a tremendous struggle is unlikely, and there is no reason to think she ever believed her "Boysy" would fight rather than run away to have more or less fun the rest of their lives. Englishmen bore her, English women him. Her Maryland relatives last week were reported heartbroken, had been sure they would have best seats at the Coronation...
Incidentally, the Englishmen should get some kind of cheer. They brought over their tiny cars knowing they would be hopelessly outclassed, and drove a good steady sporting race. They also provided the prize sound effects of the day, making it sound like a real motor race. The opinion has been expressed that we should do as is generally done in Europe by providing a separate class for tiny engines or by giving them some sort of handicap...
Race (TIME, Feb. 9, Sept. 14, 1931). In 1933 she financed a flight over Mt. Everest to prove to India that "not all Englishmen are degenerate." Lately, the sympathies of "Britain's Fairy Godmother" have been aroused by the sorry case of handsome Captain George Black ("Dod") Orsborne and his brother Jim. From Great Grimsby on the Humber, last All Fools' Day, the Orsbornes and two other fishermen ran away with the new trawler Girl Pat, chugged south for an unknown destination (TIME, June 8 et seq.). Three months later, after a wild, zigzag cruise across the South...
...general view that "the university is mainly a place of education for young men just before they enter upon life and should confine its whole administration to this practical aim." (Please note the word "practical"!) "We are confident," the article continues, "that this view is the one from which Englishmen in general regard the universities. It is a growing subject of discontent among the public that the tutors and professors of both Oxford and Cambridge are becoming more and more absorbed in their own scientific pursuits." And these remarks at the time when the two ancient universi...