Word: englishwomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faith and determination were sufficient to get her through the long, Trans-Siberian Railway trip and to help her track down Mrs. Lawson in Yangcheng in northern China, hundreds of miles from the China coast where she had begun her search. There the two Englishwomen set up an inn for mule drivers. Gladys' first Chinese was a chant: "We have no bugs, we have no fleas. Good, good, good-come, come, come." Her job was to grab the leading mule of a caravan and lead him into the courtyard. After the mules were fed, their drivers became willing listeners...
...hates to make snap decisions, likes to sleep on the hard ones. He seldom relaxes. When he does, he likes to tell stories from his vast fund of them, though his wife Jessie sometimes protests: "Oh Erwin, not that one again!" One of his favorites is about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried one, "don't you Americans ever do anything by hand...
...archetype is Benito Mussolini. As a young Socialist, he was poor, sickly and beset by strange anguish. "I am afraid of trees, of dogs, of the sky and my own shadow." He was always hungry and he despised the rich. Once, in a Lausanne park, he saw two elderly Englishwomen on a bench, lunching on hard-boiled eggs; he pounced on the women and snatched their lunch...
...book reviews, at literary lights like G. B. Shaw and H. G. Wells. The cleverness and impudence matured into eloquence and insight, and in criticism and novels (The Judge, The Return of the Soldier, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon), Rebecca West proved herself one of the most ardently articulate Englishwomen of her time...
...thousand clamoring Englishwomen crowded London's small Caxton Hall. They demanded immediate transportation to the U.S. They were brides of U.S. servicemen, and they spoke for 40,000 others, all necessarily left behind in the redeployment rush. Many had babies. Many were hard up. Many were just desperately lonely. All wanted space on westbound ships...