Word: english
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tycoon Sirs: Had hoped you would tire of it-but no. I'll forgive you anything you have done-or anything you may do, if you'll abandon that alien "tycoon" thing. Even TIME cannot pluck it from its comic opera setting in the mind of the English speaking world, and give it adequacy or dignity, by all too frequent use. Is good old United States so poverty stricken that you must lug this in? It grates-ugh! H. VAN ANTWERP Farmers...
...should hear my high class English accent. Hot stuff...
Chatting over a cocktail His Majesty envisioned himself "working away in some big American automobile factory . . . like the Tsar Peter . . . who traveled incognito all over Europe and who did not shirk from taking a job in Dutch and English shipyards to get acquainted with the latest developments...
Writes Dr. Sunderland: "Seemingly Kipling's association in India with the English must have been almost exclusively with the military men and with the most imperialistic and domineering of the civil officials. As to India itself, the real India, the great India of the past and the present, with its history and its civilization, he seems to have cared nothing for this, and to have taken no pains to inform himself about it. As to the Indian people, he seems never to have cared to associate or to become acquainted with any but the lowest. Unless we make these...
...Finance Minister, was soon and repeatedly begged by the President to withdraw it, refused (TIME, Aug. 19). Last week the brothers-in-law held a further series of earnest conferences at Shanghai. In the end Banker Soong scored an impressive win. Presently he told correspondents in the smooth English he learned at Harvard that he had withdrawn his resignation as Finance Minister with the understanding that: 1) China's largest-standing-army-in-the-world (250,000) will be "quickly" reduced to one-half its present strength; 2) President Chiang and the War Office will for the first time...