Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sound movie may be produced to teach students how to use Lamont, Metcalf revealed, adding that the English A tours of Widener are "not too effective...
...Shoes" is unusual in that it presents for the first time in an English-speaking film, a faithful picture of the "Chaos! Chaos! Chaos!" (as one dancer bemoans) out of which all stage art must be born. The wonderfully affected, simple people of the theater are all there: fending, loving, and enchanting everyone, and none more enchanted than themselves...
...General Eisenhower to stick by his guns was a tougher job than has ever been told until now. This week, in the 559 pages of Crusade in Europe, Ike explains just how tough it was. Written in the brisk and serviceable monotone of West Point English, it is Ike's own indispensable record of the war in Europe and Africa...
...Guns. From the time the news of his impending birth had first been made public (TIME, March 15), a wave of sentiment, curling into sentimentality, had traveled across the English-speaking world. Early last week an impressionable housewife of Elizabeth, N.J. dreamed that Britain's Elizabeth had had a boy, and woke her husband and three children in the dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous...
Gaudy Legend. At 47, after three decades in the dazzled public eye, Actress Bankhead is one of the few people in the English-speaking world instantly and unmistakably identifiable by her first name. Her lounging, lionesslike vitality, her insatiable lust for life and her contempt for all forms of humbug have inspired a large body of legend. Her egomania is about as extreme as "the artistic temperament" can produce. She is exhibitionistic, extravagant, self-indulgent, unpredictable-and full of whims, radiant good humor and terrible rages. She is all these things in a very fulltime, wholehearted...