Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people really talked the way Authoress Roberts' country characters do, they would either be hired for an antique chorus or put in an asylum. No gramophonic realist but an artist who digs for buried treasure, Authoress Roberts makes her Kentucky farmers' speech into the kind of lyricized dialect which the late John Millington Synge dug for and found among his Aran Islanders...
With fresh cheers the Assembly tagged Article 46 with a language amendment: "Castilian is the standard Spanish dialect and shall be taught in the schools...
...Sheila Kaye-Smith likes Sussex, continues to write about its broad, quiet fields, its broad, quiet people. If by some unlikely chance you have never read one of her books, Susan Spray is a good one to begin on. If you fear being bored to extinction by heavy dialect and heavy characters clodhopping to a country tragedy, take heart: there is enough irony, humanity, sly humor to leaven a much heavier lump...
Because Aristide Briand is quite as foxy, perhaps foxier than famed Br'er Fox in the Uncle Remus tales (Author Joel Chandler Harris), TIME terms him "Br'er Briand." French readers may not know that "Br'er" is the negro dialect contraction of "Brother," that its playful application to a foxy statesman is not extinct in U. S. political usage...
...Georges Clemenceau at the studio of Claude Monet. In 1914 he offered his polylinguistic services to the Tiger. He served as an officer in the French, British and U. S. Armies successively. Especially adept was he at detecting whether or not a man's dialect in any language corresponded to the town he purported to be from; by this means he exposed many a German spy, sent him out to be shot. Once acting the spy himself, he was dropped from an airplane behind the German lines, gained his information and escaped. Leon Dabo thoroughly enjoyed the War. Dabo...