Word: manxman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although he lives in England, Kermode calls himself "a Manxman," because he grew up on the Isle of Man, a small independent country situated between England and Ireland...
...other diversions which the curious little Isle of Man otters tourists is an annual automobile race. There one evening last May famed British Sportsman Kaye Don, in preparation for the race, was speeding around a corner at something like a mile a minute when his car scraped a Manxman's sedan, jumped a hedge, landed upside down 75 yd. away. Don's mechanic, Francis Taylor, was killed. When Kaye Don hobbled out of the hospital last week, he hobbled straight into an ancient courtroom where Manx Deemsters are sworn to uphold justice "as indifferently as the herring...
...Bellamy, 75, author of The Pledge to the Flag; in Tampa, Fla. The pledge: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Died. Sir Hall Caine, 78, famed novelist (The Manxman, The Eternal City, The Woman Thou Gavest Me); of lung congestion; in Greeba Castle, Isle of Man. He was a close friend of David Lloyd George and of the late Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
...homeland there is little ... to do except farm and fish," said Manxman Cain. U. S. Manxmen, headed by Manxman Daniel Teare, did not favor this proposal. Said Manxman Teare: "I am an American as well as a Manxman and if we started making a separate quota for every little community the size of the Isle of Man, where would we be?" At the final session, however, the North American Manx Association was organized, with constitution and officers; its president was A. B. Crookall...
...visiting Manxmen were impressed by the size of the U. S., though not by its climate nor its political excitements. The latter, Manxman George J. A. Brown declared to be "weird," while his companions, annoyed by the heat and dust and goings-on of the convention city, recalled with homesick joy that in Man, where each case requires individual legislation, there have been not more than half a dozen divorces; that there are no snakes or foxes in Man, and that even the insects are not malicious; that the Manx temperature rarely if ever exceeds 75 degrees...