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Word: englandish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont treated his guests more handsomely than Mr. Ford treated his guests the week before. After giving the tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists a neat New Englandish lunch, Mr. Ford took his richest guest, Irénée du Pont (middle brother), away for a private conference. Pierre du Pont regaled his guests, practically every last man of whom would have liked a job with the Du Ponts, with a splendid twilight dinner in the ballroom of his gorgeous greenhouse. An organ recital soothed the diners, and colored lights playing on the estate's fountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemical Eng'rs at Du Pont's | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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