Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that Americans and Englishmen, generally, find difficulty in mastering foreign languages, but, even if they fail to acquire a perfect accent, or misspell an occasional word, this does not constitute an insult or offense to the natives of the country, as Mr. Mallison apparently considers...
...Wodehouse seems to have been more fortunate than most of the other Englishmen in his internment camp, whose release would perhaps have had less publicity value for the Germans and of course he was only in an internment camp to begin with, which is a very different thing from a concentration camp. People who get out of such concentration camps as Dachau, for instance-well in the first place not a great many of them get out and when they do, they are seldom able to broadcast...
...London Daily Mirror: "Wodehouse . . . lived luxuriously here because Britain laughed with him, but when the laughter was out of his country's heart, Wodehouse was not ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess, if you are Mister Lucifer's personal guest...
...nearly put a stop to golf tournaments in England, has cut down greyhound races to one meet instead of three a week; pigs and potatoes flourish on Wimbledon's famed tennis courts. But, come hell or Hitler, Englishmen still refuse to give up cricket and the Derby...
...when the U.S. stood on the threshold of world trade and world power, Manhattan's National City Bank opened its first foreign branch in Buenos Aires. It was forced to staff the new bank with Englishmen, because-to the disgust of City Bank president, the late Frank Arthur Vanderlip-few U.S. citizens with South American know-how were available. Sensing the U.S.'s new world role, Banker Vanderlip began giving tough 12-to-18-month courses in foreign economics, languages, business customs to college graduates, for jobs in the City Bank's foreign service...