Word: yorkshireman
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...Peppery Yorkshireman Clarence Henry Willcock, 55, had no intention of making himself a cause célébre. He was simply fed up. When a burly constable armed with all the majesty of entrenched bureaucracy stopped him for speeding in a London suburb last year, Harry's reflexes crystallized. "All right, now," Police Constable Muckle told Harry, when he pulled to a stop, "let's see your identity card." Since the first days of World War II, all Britons have been required to carry identity cards and produce them on demand, but Harry...
Both kinds will get plenty of chance to hear him. At 40, Yorkshireman Kell has come to the U.S. to stay. Says he: "All I could see ahead over there was the same old sort of thing. I thought I'd get out a bit and see what America might offer...
...international labor get-together in Oslo, British Guest Mark Hewitson, M.P. for Hull, recalled some of the bonds between Norway and Britain. "As Ah look around your coontry," said Yorkshireman Hewitson",'"Ah see a whole lot o' things that recall the visits which your Viking ancestors made to ma coontry many centuries ago. And y' know a lot o' your lads -refugees like-came over to us during t' war. Naow, Ah'm a dalesman (living in England's northern valleys) masen. Ah believe that Ah've got a whole...
...Yorkshireman Rank went imperturbably on with his plans. He expected to complete the Odeon-G.C.F. merger this week by voting the 90% of Odeon common stock that he and his friends control. Said Rank: "My shareholders have the greatest confidence in me. . . . After all, why should they complain? When I took over Odeon, the five-shilling common shares were worth four shillings only. Now they are worth 40 shillings...
...Monte Carlo veterans still reminisce about a legendary mechanic known as "Jaggers the Yorkshireman," who charted the weaknesses of the Casino's wheels, reportedly cleaned up $500,000 before the operators reset the wheels...