Word: limey
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...daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle of Colonial Government Gazette. The general effect of this journalistic salute was approximately what might be achieved with a rather large stink bomb at a Government House garden party; the editorial headline read simply, LIMEY, GO HOME...
...beens and a voice from the past. For good or ill, Bermuda's face is turned westward. To America she looks for protection, to her tourists for her livelihood." New British immigrants (Noel Coward, for instance) are likely to be greeted as nothing but tax dodgers. The phrase "Limey, go home" is not a slur, of course, but "the voice of destiny...
...Gohr, who was responsible for direction, choreography, sets, and costumes, handled her job with finesse. Poor Macdonald was meek and shy, as he should have been, while Cortright made a most dauntless limey sailor. At times the latter was slightly unconvincing, but his singing and a fine first act dance made up for any acting deficiency. Miss Petersen never could make up her mind what man she should marry and Loomis was mad as a hatter. Victor Altschul, Chester Hartman, and Alison Keith all added convincing Gilbert and Sullivan acting techniques to the production. Musical arrangements by pianist Richard Friedberg...
Billed as a thriller, Gently Does It scares no one. And a steady stream of undisguised hints wash away any trace of suspense. Against a background of urban England, Oliver, as Edward Bare, plays a limey opportunist who, for a chance to travel abroad, kills one wife and marries a second. A sharp voice for his uneducated but shrewd conceit, the facial expressions which change with the varying moods of flattery and hate, and the complete lack of human warmth all combine to make Bare a wonderful villain. It is this performance which is primarily responsible for keeping the play...
...voyages. He guessed right, recommended citrus fruits to supply what science years later called vitamin C. In 1795, Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered lemons or limes included in the daily diet on British ships. Soon British sailors and then the whole British people became known as "limeys." "Limey" bears no etymological relation to "Blimey," or to Limehouse, a London dock district named for an old lime kiln, or oast...