Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Grierson took this impression of the U.S. press back to England and put it to work. Documentary films, not newspapers, were his medium. By dramatizing the actual workings of a complicated world, these one-to-three-reel shorts would help make Englishmen better citizens by acquainting them with the tasks of England and the Empire...
...brother promptly presented to an organization both men belonged to, the Hell Fire Club, where the baboon was given the Eucharist at every meeting. Blasphemy had burned out of the family by the time Robert Gilbert Vansittart came along, as the conquering spirit had burned out of most Englishmen...
...auspices of the League of Composers. The League thus gave a poor start to a good project: development of a "Composers' Theater" to give contemporary English-language opera throughout the U.S. For Paul Bunyan was as bewildering and irritating a treatment of the outsize lumberman as any two Englishmen could have devised...
...second half of the bill, "Convoy," is a good, exciting bit of British propaganda. Like "The Lion Has Wings," it doesn't care much about plot, but concentrates on proving that all Englishmen are gentlemen and that the British Navy is supreme. The sequences of a naval battle between a British cruiser and a German pocket battleship are especially good...
...point there was no dispute. The Serbs have fighting courage, not just ordinary courage like Englishmen or Germans, but fanatical courage that awes everyone who has to do with them. Two tales told last week exemplify it: >In 1912 a Serbian komitaji (guerrilla), having been captured by the Turks, was sentenced to death. Before the firing squad the Turkish commander cynically asked him: "Have you ever been in a worse predicament?" He replied: "Twice-on two occasions friends came to my house and I had no bread to offer them." > A Serbian general ordered a colonel to lead his troops...