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...years ago, British galleries jeered Cotton for not joining the Ryder Cup team the previous year because rules compelled him to travel with his teammates. Last week he rode on the shoulders of the crowd from the last green to the clubhouse. There he learned that Englishmen Brews and Padgham had finished second and third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Briton's Open | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...raiders from the ghetto, urged on by Moscow's gold, have been attempting to break up this meeting. These raiders carried knives, razors, and every weapon known to the ghettos of humanity in their effort to deny free speech to Englishmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Little Man in Black | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...others are now dead so there is no reason any longer why I shouldn't reveal it." Denver oldsters took the Yellow Earl's revelations calmly. They recalled that the holdup was a practical joke by the Earl and cowboy friends who heard that a party of Englishmen had taken the Denver coach and decided to scare them. They held up the coach right enough but. suddenly discovering some U. S. mail under the driver's seat and realizing the possible consequences, they scattered like scared jackrabbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yellow Earl | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

Returning from the land of beer and beef, Mr. Cukor remarked that only Boston children could take part in his forthcoming magnum opns, because only in the Hub is the King's English spoken so that Englishmen can understand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greater Boston's Accents Equal the King's Own Ingleesh, Says Cukor; Who Can Gainsay Him? | 6/13/1934 | See Source »

...world affairs. He already enjoyed the distinction of having sold the first practical submarine ever used in naval operations o his native Greece, and the further distinction of having used this sale to frighten Turkey into buying TWO submarines. The Boer War added to his laurels; Boers shot Englishmen with Vickers guns and ammunition. The Russo-Japanese War provided him with an even wider field for his gifts; Vickers sold as much was material (and possibly more) to Russia as it did to Japan, England's supposed ally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMS AND THE MEN | 5/16/1934 | See Source »

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