Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case Grandma has modernized her idea of fun to include such excursions as that of last week, when the Princess and a party of friends dined & wined at the Bagatelle, one of Mayfair's toniest nightspots, till past midnight, listened to a red-haired Russian sing Englishmen Never Make Love by Day, danced rumbas and tangos till the band went home. Elizabeth's escort was an old family friend, married, bespectacled Charles Villiers (pronounced Villers), a former colonel in the Grenadier Guards...
...Englishmen admit that dirty weather won at least half the battle for England when Spain went down with the Armada in 1588. Dirty weather - under the guise of Kamikaze, the Divine Wind - saved Japan from defeat in 1274 when Kubla Khan's invasion boats were smashed to flotsam. Dirty weather postponed and al most disrupted World War II's Dday. In peace or war, weather is important, and these days of air travel reliable weather information is more important than ever before...
...brought jam to tea-drinking Englishmen is a 30-year-old R.A.F. musician named Sidney Gross. Before the war he was a night club guitarist who liked to play American style with a few friends after hours. Then he heard the Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw bands play for the R.A.F. "When most English players hear Americans, they are so depressed they want to put their instruments away," says Gross. Instead, he wanted to go and do likewise...
...past century, in two worlds. One world was the cosmopolitan, factory-packed port of Buenos Aires. The other was the land of rich green pasturage, yellow grainfields and brown, newly-turned earth which stretched west to the Andes, south to Patagonia. It was what Englishmen called the "camp." as vast as the whole of the U.S. east of the Mississippi...
According to Professor Brinton, who has recently returned from two years of service with the O.S.S. in Great Britain, there are few Englishmen who advocate a British mandate over the Italian colonies: most seem to realize," he continued, "that the Victorian era of colonial annexation is past." Going on to say it was doubtful if the English would accede to a leftist regime in Italy, or on the other hand would support a monarchy, he added that "it is probable that a fairly conservative republic would be acceptable...