Word: yorkshiremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yorkshire was not impressed with the fame gained by its native sons in the outside world. Most Yorkshiremen stared stonily at the works, pronounced them "poozling" and just plain "dommed silly." Said one housewife: "Eee-ee. Did you ever? I wouldn't even have that in our Nellie's attic." Armitage was not surprised. Said he: "The social atmosphere is so puritan and esthetically barren that any artist who fights his way to any kind of recognition there is bound to do all right in the rest of the world...
This year's Charles Eliot Norton professor was born in 1893, a Yorkshireman descended from generations of Yorkshiremen, all farmers. His whole outlook on life has been mellowed by these deep roots; they give him the innately cautious attitude of an English country gentleman. He is quiet, always calm, and reticent--modest to the point of shyness. A friend who has known him for thirty years claims Read is one man about whom no anecdote will ever be told...
...hunt for new markets all over the globe, he has found he can ship British tractors through the Panama Canal cheaply enough to compete with Midwest tractor makers for California sales. Says he: "We wouldn't try to sell in the Midwest, because those farmers are like our Yorkshiremen-inclined to distrust a product they don't know. Californians are willing to try something...
Their jailers are Russian, British, French and American. The four officers occupy desks in the same office, speak German to each other, take turns being warden. Similarly, outside the troops of four nations take turns manning the ramparts; this month it is a company of Yorkshiremen...
...musty auction rooms of Sydney's Royal Exchange, the wildest wool market in history got under way last week. Buyers pulled off their neckties and rolled up their sleeves as prices jumped in the heavy bidding carried on by burry-voiced Yorkshiremen, throaty Flemings, precise, high-pitched French. All Western Europe was bidding for this year's crop of Australian wool...