Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classroom English is a kind of dead language, derived chiefly from British literary traditions. Outside the classroom door students have lapsed naturally into their native American, which has a vocabulary as broad as the country, as exact and complex as U. S. technology, from which it draws many terms. To close the breach between classroom English and spoken American, two works had appeared last week in time for inclusion among next year's textbooks...
Married. Madge Evans, 30, blonde screen and stage actress of 25 years' standing, and Sidney Kingsley, 32, Pulitzer Prize playwright (Men in White, Dead End); both for the first time, in York Village...
Reason the scribbling audience paid such close attention was that Willie Long Bone was speaking a nearly dead language. Despite a general increase in the U. S. Indian population, the number of Delawares is dwindling, and only about 40 of the oldest still speak the pure tongue...
...Willie's tales, which he learned from his grandmother and which takes hours to tell because it is replete with rich and often racy detail, concerns the tribulations of the Delawares after two women had misbehaved sexually with a dying bird. When the bird, dead, applied for admittance "up above where he should go," he could not get in because he was denied. That night a manitou (spirit) visited the Delaware chief, told him the tribe must atone for the wrong done to the bird. The manitou suggested that all the young women dance naked before...
...CONCERNED NOTIFIED-Helen Reilly-Crime Club ($2). Inspector McKee of Manhattan's Homicide Squad links a dead woman in a hotel with two well-to-do corpses in an old house in Greenwich Village. Merits: good characters, fast action, nocturnal chills. Fault: complicated family relationship...