Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Wodehouse has been at it almost since Queen Victoria died, does not quite remember whether he has written 40 or 50 books. He is always just the same, usually just as good. Some critics attribute this titillating timelessness to the fact that he has raised the stage Englishman to the dignity of literature. Others have called him an acute social critic, professing to see the blunderings of Munich foreshadowed in the maunderings of Bertie Wooster...
...first time since World War I that this event in the International Live stock Exposition and Horse Show had had a Canadian judge. Formerly, because both U. S. and Canadian farmers exhibit, the judge was either an Englishman, Scotsman or South American. But this year the war made another exception. Canadian Charlie Yule took the job, with misgivings. While the hushed crowd of 15.000 watched, Judge Yule weeded out the entries to the four finalists: two from Purdue University, "Loyal Alumnus III" and "College Maid"; the University of Alberta's "Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay...
Glamour Preferred (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements, produced by Brock Pemberton ) is a Hollywood story which for a few moments is highly engaging, thanks to the acting of Robert Craven as an ostensibly silly Englishman. He plays a warming love scene, and brings down the house with a line which should be immensely discouraging to women who dress-to-please-the-men. (To his wife about to put on evening clothes: "You'd better nip along and sling into your kit!") But like Beverly Hills and Quiet, Please!, which preceded it to Broadway by a fortnight, Glamour Preferred...
...escaped Göring's airmen by fleeing to Rumania in September 1939. Several Gestapo attempts to return him to Germany were foiled by Rumanian police. Last week, according to D.N.B., Beck was arrested by Iron Guard and Gestapo agents as he tried to escape "disguised as an Englishman." In his pocket was a British diplomatic passport...
...reeling spring of 1940 an Englishman's home was a place of horror. The Nazis were coming. Englishmen, looking at their wives and children, already saw them as corpses. Looking at their leaders, they saw the discredited appeasers, who had promised first peace, then planes and guns, finally failed to deliver either. A little while longer these ghosts of political dead men still squeaked and gibbered in the ministries before Englishmen said in Cromwell's words: "Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God-go!" Then they turned to Winston Churchill...