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Another possible occupant of the second spot on the team is "Limey" Paula Newnham. A world class runner, Newnham has had to battle with hepatitis and achilles tendon problems in her first two cross country seasons at Harvard...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harriers Go Fishing for the Big One... ...As Women Harriers Hunt Big Game | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Watch out folks, the Bounding One, the Bod, the Limey, the Mighty Mite, the Sweet Kraut, the Duck, the Stoneham Scrapper, the Heartbreak Kid, Vaya Con and Smiley...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harriers Go Fishing for the Big One... ...As Women Harriers Hunt Big Game | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...addition to not letting the team down, the "slimey limey" depends on pride as a motive for getting psyched...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Coglin Takes on All and 'Always Wins' | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

...achieve a pastiche of the style of the Master, this effort of Mr. Kanfer's must take the jolly old biscuit. The idea of Jeeves as a club waiter serving "gin stengahs" (whatever they may be) is lamentable. For the rest, your reviewer has unfortunately let his anti-limey prejudices get the better of him, and his cliches and mixed metaphors are too dire for comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 2, 1975 | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...Detroit policemen on their downtown beat were ticketing a man peddling rings on the sidewalk. Then up popped this limey photographer who kept snapping away at them. Asked for identification, the fellow could only produce an out-of-date press card. At headquarters, the suspicious cops satisfied themselves that "Tony Charles Snow-down [sic]" was not the peddler's accomplice. They issued him a temporary press card and prepared to let him go. Then someone did a double take. Hastily, Princess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, was whisked into Police Commissioner Philip G. Tannian's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 4, 1974 | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

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