Word: dialects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maristan Chapman" (Wife Mary Ilsley and Husband John Stanton Chapman), before "her" identity was discovered, had already begun to make a name as a writer of mountaineer stories, was regarded by some critics as a competitor if not a rival of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. But barring hillbilly dialect and more pointed characterization than thrillers usually carry, Glen Hazard competes with nothing more literarily ambitious than a detective story...
Special features: Every sense of every word is dated. Reason for present spelling and pronunciation of difficult words is given. Idioms, often comparatively neglected, are defined, illustrated. Dialect words in general use, slang and colloquialisms are included...
Realistically brown, wearing a baby-blue coat, red pants, patent leather boots and spurs, Tibbett sat himself insolently on a red plush throne, put his feet up on the arm, began magnificently to impersonate Emperor Jones. In soft, natural Negro dialect, perfectly suited to the smooth, dark color of his voice, he boasted about how he had fooled the natives, telling them that only a silver bullet could kill him. He boasted about his record back in the States where he had killed two men. broken jail. Then Smithers told him about the savages on the hill. They were molding...
...heart. On Good Friday stigmata appeared on her feet and hands, later on her head. Doctors were baffled. Then on every Friday, from morning until midafternoon, Therese Neumann re-enacted the Passion of Jesus Christ, bleeding profusely, babbling in aramaic, Hebrew and Latin as well as her own peasant dialect...
...French film, Le Million, was presented in the Geography Building on December first, 1931. The films, selected by an instructor, have been on the whole, excellent, though not always pleasing to the tastes of everyone. One which was the subject of criticism was the admirably directed "Marius" because the dialect of its characters was a medley of French and Italian sounds. Except for this, the films, and especially Rene Clair's, which have been shown periodically, have given students an opportunity to hear the spoken French language in a pleasant...