Word: english
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Talking motion pictures which threaten to revolutionize so decidedly the stage and screen, will also be the instrument of making English the international language, according to the recent statement of a British film magnate. English as the practical successor to Esperanto may appear a visionary prospect until one considers the influence of the talkies in the far and near sections of the world. The younger set in the Fiji Islands, for example, are certain to become vitally interested in English upon beholding the magic of the silver screen and listening to the soft charm of the Hollywood talkies' silver tongue...
...English Commonwealth", Professor Whitney, Harvard...
...only in the peculiar perversion of the English language that "Leffing Ges" is comparable to "Nize Baby", but even in the type of stories told. For example, in this latest work we again meet "De Boston Tea Potty", "Crissty Colombiss" and the perpetual menace of "Leetle Rad Riding Hood." But then perhaps the possibilities are limited. They are, indeed, between the Grossian and Burbigian dialects. As one well versed in the variations of 'English as she is spoke', this reviewer, at a guess, would say that the raconteur of Mr. Burbig's stories is of mixed Jewish and Italian parentage...
Professor Moulton, since last year a director of Utility Power & Light Corp. (Chicago), has been conducting an acrimonious, unended debate with Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer. Professor Moulton charges British astronomers with belittling Chamberlin's pioneer work on the planetesimal theory and insinuating that they accomplished its real development. Professor Jeffreys pooh-poohs Prof. Moulton's charges, says brusquely that Prof. Moulton "has been asleep for 20 years...
Whatever the means, each and every itinerant President knew the end that great G.M. has in view. While the battle of Fords and Chevrolets begins again at home, Ford has flung down a challenge for European markets as well. Sir Percival Perry, English Ford generalissimo, opened hostilities when he offered especially to English investors shares of the $34,020,000 Ford Motor Co., Ltd. Similar offerings are being made by Ford companies on the Continent. But Great Britain & Ireland are now Ford's key sectors; his Manchester, Cork and Dagenham (capacity 200,000 cars annually; unfinished) plants...