Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother and an adventurous Irish father, Ambrosio O'Higgins. Born plain Ambrose O'Higgins in County Meath, Father Ambrosio went to South America to seek his fortune and was so successful that he became the Spanish-appointed Governor of Chile. Son Bernardo was educated in Spain and England, returned to work, later fight, for Chilean independence at the side of South America's famed liberator, José de San Martin. In 1817 Bernardo O'Higgins became benevolent dictator of Chile's first independent permanent government...
...those markets look as good as they sound, he will begin his biggest venture yet: publishing Penguin books in Basic English, a simple 850-word vocabulary sifted out by Orthologist-Critic Charles Kay Ogden. Besides the prospect of getting rich while combining two of the liveliest ideas in England, Publisher Lane may also point the way to matching, in the democracies, the vast book editions made possible under dictatorships through State-controlled publishing houses...
...trumpeted for application of U. S. airworthiness rules to Imperial's aircraft, the hand-tied U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority replied that it was bound by a reciprocal agreement for the New York-Bermuda route to accept Britain's requirements for Imperial's planes, just as England accepts CAA provisions for Pan American...
...stable of stately Daimlers used by Britain's King-Emperor was added last week a new car, prescribed by his physicians as a precaution against colds on State drives in England's damp winter weather. The new, maroon-bodied limousine has expansive glass windows, a glass roof panel, so that, whether the King's subjects are cheering from the curb or hanging out of windows, they can see him and his family...
...producer in England persuaded Bernard Shaw to sell picture rights to his plays. French producers have lately turned out genuinely original products like Le Roman d'un Tricheur and Grand Illusion. Hollywood, however, even when it was not deliberately repeating itself, repeated itself unconsciously. Gunga Din is an example of this unconscious repetition. Whatever there is to be said about the minor matter of barrack-room life in India has been more than sufficiently said by the cinema many times, most recently in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Charge of the Light Brigade and Drums...