Word: glaswegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bank Account in Heaven. In Britain, they still gaped at the facts & fable of his wealth and power. "Henry bloody Ford," said a Glaswegian. "I am a cheap Ford salesman and Ford's a gentleman. He captured the world. Head of the atomic energy he is too. Mon! He's a fine chap." But Socialist conservatism also spoke. Said a taxi driver: "No, we can't afford Henry Ford today. It's a good thing all that big business is finished over here...
Denis William Brogan, a Cambridge University don (political science) and BBC adviser on U.S. affairs, is fast becoming the western world's most frequent spokesman on Anglo-American characteristics. By birth (1900) a Scots-Irish Glaswegian, Brogan was educated at Glasgow, Oxford and Harvard, has since published scholarly, lively studies of three nations-The American Character, The English People, The Free State. His newest foray is a collection of 27 essays on French figures and subjects ranging from political and military (including Clemenceau, Jaures, Darlan, De Gaulle) to literary (Dumas, Proust...
Through fellow Glaswegian Paul Vincent Carroll (Shadow & Substance) she finally landed a job as an understudy in The Divorce of Lady X. The producer of her next show, East Lynn, proposed after three days' acquaintance, but she decided to wait "a decent interval," got around to marrying him three weeks later. Only this year she joined the talented little group which calls itself The Company of Four...
...debate in the Peace Conference Rules Committee dragged on, the Russians last week were startled, annoyed-and a bit impressed and pleased-to hear some blunt talk from a new voice, speaking in a rolling Glaswegian burr...
...William Joyce, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Like Joyce, Margot had a falling out with Sir Oswald, and when Joyce departed for Germany a few days before war broke out, she sailed with him to become his second wife. His first, a Glaswegian, later identified Joyce as Hitler's Haw Haw. Margot became Lady...