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...been shattered and that any of his soldiers not natives of Tigre were fair game. As an exhausted straggler would stumble into a village last week, angry spearmen would rush out to ask "Ane men? Who are you?" If the straggler answered in any Ethiopian tongue except the Tigrean dialect he was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR,BELGIUM,GREAT BRITAIN: One Capital, One Throne | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...little known poem of Kipling's, written to the Yale Kipling Club in 1896 in regret that he could not accept an invitation to a literary dinner in his honor, is shown. The poem is written in Irish dialect and parodies literary gatherings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/4/1936 | See Source »

...music publishers, announced that the tune, which was unrestricted, was the most popular on the air. Station WHN played it 28 times on one all-night broadcast in answer to 428 appeals. Station WBNX prepared to broadcast the song in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, Ukranian, Greek, Negro dialect, Irish brogue and pig-Latin. In dance halls, cinemansions. night clubs the nation reeled in vertigo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho ! | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...play will be the feature of a meeting of the Spanish Club in Winthrop House Senior Common Room at 8 o'clock tonight. "Secretico de Confession," originally written in the Aragonese dialect by Signores Serefin y Joaquin-Quintero has been translated into the more familiar Castilian by Erwin Jaffe 3G. Coached by Jaffe, Gilbert Fraunhar '38, Therese Nadean, Earle S. Randall 3G, and Marjorie Wood, Radcliffe '38 will present the entrenice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spanish Club Will Present One Act Play This Evening | 12/17/1935 | See Source »

...general the photography and synchronization are good, although the voices of one or two actors are not well recorded and the frequent use of slang makes the dialect some what hard to understand...

Author: By S. V. N. p., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/24/1935 | See Source »

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