Word: englis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America must either spend his visit on Ellis Island or go about as Andrew Volstead. That for the moment is all I can think of to say to America, and I assure you it is a high compliment. Perhaps by the time I next write to you from Cambridge, Eng. (where life, as I have previously indicated, is a round of leisure) I shall have had time to think up some pithy sayings and artless aphorisms about the real America. Meanwhile "for all our thanks"--I must rush off to a party...
...Bloomingdale, N. J., police jailed Eng Wing Koon, 27, Manhattan laundryman who proposed to earn his way to Hollywood by tying his three-foot pigtail on roadside trees, swinging painfully for five minutes, collecting fees from interested passersby...
...apart from this I must apologize for the purely local colour which events at Cambridge (ENG.) seem to have borne during the last week, and for the lack of matter in even so short a letter as this. We will both have better luck next week I hope...
Briefly recounting the parts played by members of the middle class in the Eng- lish Rebellion of the 1640's, in the French Revolution and in the American War of Independence, Lewis Corey finds that they have been alternately revolutionary and reactionary, at times struggling against the monarchy or the nobles, at times suppressing lower-class radical movements. Thus, before the War of Independence, small shopkeepers, artisans, craftsmen, made common cause with dispossessed laborers against wealthy British merchants and colonial aristocrats, turned on their allies when the "independent plebeian phase" of the movement became strong...
...Eng'g. Sciences...