Word: englishmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more notable because Britons, whatever their hopes of the socialist future, find the present dreary beyond measure. Lawyers and engineers, as well as clerks and workmen, talk seriously of emigrating to lands where opportunity is not muffled. Australia has received applications from 150,000. Well-to-do Englishmen are buying estates in Eire, where eggs and meat abound. In the House of Commons last week, Herbert Morrison's brain-truster, Mr. Gordon-Walker, complained that the BBC had broadcast a song...
...Bastille Day vacation swelled the crowds that plowed up the fine beach, cheered as postwar merveilleuses displayed the world's scantiest bathing suits and vied in U.S.-style beauty contests. At the Bar du Soleil, Englishmen paid 200 francs for a thimbleful of whiskey. At the Hotel Normandy guests paid 1,200 francs for a room. Restaurants charged 200 francs for a dinner of soup, eggs or fish, one vegetable, one peach...
This treasonable grouch caused poor Farmer Brocke to be knocked, not patted, on the head by the royal executioner. But his view was shared by thousands of Englishmen-affected equally by medieval superstition and horror over Henry's conflict with the Pope. Crowds screamed maniacally when the new Queen appeared in public. The very heavens were said to be outraged by the royal sacrilege; the night sky was rent by speeding, flaming symbols of doom, and tongues of lightning came down to earth to meet the blaze of the fires in which the Catholic martyrs were consumed...
...Soldier-of-the-Queen Malcolm was now reduced to collecting chinaware, hobbling to his club (Travellers') on two canes, and frowning on decadent modern Englishmen who no longer dress for dinner even among headhunters...
...newly established Church of England. Campion chose Rome and danger. He found it improbable, his biographer says with an English convert's zeal, "that the truth, hidden from the world for fifteen centuries, had suddenly been revealed in the last few years to a group of important Englishmen...