Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look into any country's factories. Cried Russia's Andrei Vishinsky: "Nobody will blind us and confuse us with beautiful words about the necessity of waiving part of our national sovereignty . . . The control agency would be an American agency ... an international monopolistic super-trust. [The overeager Russian-English interpreter rendered this as "superduper crook."] Our chest is strong; you cannot push us down. Our neck is not a chicken's neck...
...Broadway the great success and long run (since May 1947) which it has had in London. It is that juicy mixture of about one part truth to two parts tripe known as good theater-that plumb sort of playwriting which is really just scene-writing. It gives two excellent English actors (Co-Playwright Morley and Peggy Ashcroft)* excellent opportunities...
...watching his Kent School (Conn.) crew sprinting to victory past an English shell on the Thames, the Rev. Frederick H. Sill decided that British schoolboys ought to get a chance to visit the U.S. Last week chubby, blond Anthony Stewart Arnold was back in England, after a year at Kent on one of the Schoolboy Scholarships started by Father Sill 20 years ago. Like other young Britons who had made the trip last year, 18-year-old Tony Arnold thought that U.S. prep schools were great fun to visit-but no place to get an education...
...Said he: "The spirit at Kent is terrific. I learned to take my shirttail out of my trousers, so to speak, and let it dangle." He had even learned to call his teachers Jack, Chuck and Bill-something that would have been considered scandalous at Radley College, his English school...
Greek at Twelve. At swank St. Mark's School in Massachusetts, cherubic Edward John Trevor Davies found his U.S. schoolmates deficient in languages ("Everybody was surprised that I had studied Greek when I was twelve"), English grammar ("The average boy could not express himself on paper"), and European history ("Only 10% knew the number of the monarch of Great Britain...