Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sheep in the Cemetery. This year, newsmen found the 656 tattered Polynesian survivors (there were also nine Chilean officials, two Englishmen, one Frenchman) living in one coastal village. The British company's 60,000 sheep grazed in the shadow of the ancient monoliths. The annual wool-clip alone was worth around $150,000. Ojeda demanded that Chile develop the island itself. Other Santiago papers took...
...appointment, early in 1940, of Sir Samuel Hoare as British Ambassador to Franco Spain evoked cries of protest not only from Liberal Englishmen, but from many Americans as well. With a long record of innocuous service in various Cabinet posts, and with the memory of his Italy-appeasing agreement with Laval in 1935 still rankling in the national breast, Hoare was denounced by many as too half-hearted and vacillating for the straight talking, firm-handed brand of diplomacy required in the Spanish mission...
...Irish. In the imperial scheme cricket has followed the flag (some Englishmen argue that there would have been no Irish problem if the Irish could have been induced to learn the game). And, contrary to U.S. curbstone opinion, cricket is not to be confused with croquet...
That, as some Englishmen would say, tore it. For, as a result of that brief encounter, the bigwigs of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are now immodestly slapping their own backs with the fervor of flagellant monks. They have acquired, little Miss Kerr, and they suspect that she might be the biggest thing that has happened to M-G-M since Greer Garson...
...English title: I See a Dark Stranger). Whatever the result of this more critical encounter, few who see her can miss the fact that Cinemactress Kerr carries The Adventuress as effortlessly as a hat box. Almost nobody at all will miss the fact that Cinemactress Kerr looks like everything Englishmen mean when they become lyrical about roses. Given this primary stuff that stars are made of, it is clear that Deborah is well on her way to becoming, as quickly as possible, the brightest and best movie star that the biggest and most proficient star factory in the world...