Word: dutchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sleek Frenchmen, great-throated Germans, hearty Englishmen, voluble Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number of 4,000 assembled last week in Berlin. Greatest of them all were the Americans, 1,000 in number. They were most plentiful because they considered themselves and are considered the world's foremost exponents of the meeting's subject-advertising...
...week or so ago the Holland Dutchmen raked you over the coals for misinterpreting one of their words...
...medicine. All must drink. The King and his bodyguard agreed. Faithfully they drank the prescribed drink. It came in cases labeled HOLLAND GIN. After the warriors were quite senseless, 16 girls and four boys were kidnapped, to be sold as the first slaves at Jamestown, Va. Next morning the Dutchmen were far out and the Herreros could not chase them...
...could the Herreros not chase the Dutchmen? "Not a ship among them," explained Silas, the uncle of this book's author. "That has been the downfall of our race...
Many another Englishman faced an esthetic dilemma as he thought of the rosy native graces depicted by Reynolds and Gainsborough. Several wrote to the newspapers. Why did the Dutchmen choose such ugly models? Were they ugly? Last week Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American, agreeing for once with Britishers, echoed the questions and said of Artist Haus Holbein's Eve: "The mother of the human race . . . appears to be afflicted with adenoids for she is certainly breathing through her mouth...