Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are, for instance, 3,150 books on various aspects of European, Asiatic and African history, 900 volumes on labor, 2,900 on economics, 450 on medicine, some children's books (Mother Goose, Alice In Wonderland, etc.), and 14 cook books of English, French, German, Chinese and Armenian recipes. They are useful, among other things, for satisfying our editors' curiosity about such matters as these (taken from a recent week's morgue queries...
...teaching English, she had tried to tell her students about life in the democracies. But her Communist pupils just laughed. "They told me I probably came from a well-to-do family and knew nothing of people's problems." They wouldn't believe her description of London's Hyde Park: "They just couldn't imagine a place where one man talked of vegetarianism, while another argued the Communist line, and a policeman stood placidly...
Died. Cyril Walker, 56, wispy, hard-drinking golf professional, who beat out Bobby Jones to win the U.S. Open Championship in 1924; of pleural pneumonia; in a Hackensack, N.J. jail cell, where he had gone for shelter. After winning the Open, English-born Walker gradually drank himself out of big-time competition, at one time worked as a caddy, ended up a dishwasher...
When the phrase "flower of England" was used to describe the young English dead in World War I, the name of Rupert Brooke was one of the first that usually came to mind. Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord...
...hardbitten or tired English tempers in later years, that felicitous pre-1914 age came to seem almost mythical; and Rupert Brooke, its golden lad, became himself a myth, romantic, heartbreaking, and also a little flimsy. He had written, when the war began...