Word: englishmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spite of 25 years of proud Indian independence, however, the British legacy survives not only in institutions but in the country's way of life itself. Most educated Indians still speak with British accents, even if they have never been to England and were never taught by Englishmen. Indian motorists, not to mention bullock-cart drivers, continue to use the left side of the road. When it reported the bombing of the Indian embassy in Hanoi recently, the state-owned All India Radio-which is modeled on the BBC-solemnly informed its listeners that "officers and other staff" were...
...Egyptians, rowing a very high 42, jumped to an early lead over Oxford and Harvard, and at 350 meters the Crimson trailed the A crew by a length and the Englishmen by three seats...
...takes a certain amount of gall for Englishmen to tell Americans about America. But the English, thank God, have it. In this 13-part series, a coproduction by the BBC and TIME-LIFE Films, they are using it to show a country that, even to Americans, sometimes seems as foreign and fascinating as Marco Polo's Cathay...
...scores of films and stage plays; after a series of strokes; in Boise, Idaho. The son of an English brick maker, Owen came to the U.S. in the mid-1920s, and by 1929 had starred in his first Hollywood movie. In addition to his usual roles as upper-crusty Englishmen, he appeared as Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933), a film for which he did his own screenplay, as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1938); and as the scheming politician in Affairs of State...
...knows about or cares about, and for half a century he has communicated his blissful delight with it. And that's what this new revue-styled evening of songs and patter off Broadway is-a blissful delight. There is the familiar and engaging Coward of Mad Dogs and Englishmen, I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and I'll Follow My Secret Heart. These songs seem always to have existed, yet their sentiments are fresh as first love. The show also contains less familiar Coward, like Nina, a balky girl from Argentina...