Word: dialects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Gustave Gillman did not win. Many of his words were rejected as Scottish slang, dialect, obsolete. Contestant Gillman later lost a similar contest held by Consolidated Cigar Corp., won an out-of-court settlement on the prize money. With this experience behind him he filed suit against Phillips Chemical for all of the $600, charging that the judges had fraudulently deleted words from his lists. Last April the case was tried in Manhattan Municipal Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom...