Word: dialectics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know precisely whence they came, theorize at length on their Eastern origin. Their English name is derived from the word "Egyptians" and some gypsies speak of themselves as "Pharaoh's People," claim to have originated in a non-existent "Little Egypt." Their language resembles a Hindu dialect with liberal borrowing from Greek, Persian, Armenian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Czech, German, French, English, et al. Gypsies have a great many kings and queens. In 1930 in Madison. N. J., Queen Louisa Harrison, recognized by one of the many U. S. factions, died. She was English-born, a devout Presbyterian and worth...
...life. Biographer Stewart doubts it, thinks Harte's devilishness was mostly in printing offices. As long as Harte kept culling posies from the rhetorical anthology he considered good writing, not even California paid him much attention. When he began to cultivate his own garden and write stories in the dialect of his adopted State the whole U. S. sat up and took notice. Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure. It begins...
...Chicago one morning last week, Serafina di Leo lay abed in a clutter of flowers, telegrams and Sunday papers. A great deal had happened to her in three years. She had studied diligently in Italy, learned to speak pure Italian instead of the dialect on which she had been raised. She had sung at the Scala and in Genoa. With lips vermilion-red and finger nails to match, she returned to the U. S. this autumn to find herself good copy because she was a New Jersey laborer's daughter and at 19 had a five-year contract with...
...dinner in Leverett House where only Latin was spoken. Hardly since the banqueting days of Trimalchio has such mealtime abandonment to the Latin tongue been reported; for even the medieval monks sandwiched in bits of contemporary jargon over their Benedictine. But at Leverett House, the only digression into the dialect of the Northern Barbarian Tribes was heard when food was ordered from the bewildered maids...
...Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 46, good-looking but unmarried, lives near Springfield, Ky., where she was born, whither some of her ancestors had plodded from Virginia over "Boone's Trace." Independent, self-contained, her speech and writing alike are full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and Kentucky dialect. Before she settled down to be an important U. S. novelist she wrote a book of poems, Under the Tree, which won the Fiske Prize. When the Literary Guild chose A Buried Treasure for its November book Authoress Roberts hung up a figurative trophy: she was the first authoress...