Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SUBSCRIBER REGRETS THAT YOUR USUALLY WELL-INFORMED MAGAZINE IS SO IGNORANT OF ENGLISH POLITICS AS TO PRINT SECOND AND LAST PARAGRAPHS OF "THE TEMPEST & THE TOSSED" IN JUNE 14 ISSUE [calling the House of Lords "little more than a debating society filled with crotchety, beef-pink, ultraconservative old men"]. YOUR LONDON EDITOR SHOULD ATTEND LORDS DEBATE AND MODERNIZE HIS FACTS...
...last in the official Capetown residence Groote Schuur (Big Barn), bequeathed in his will to South Africa's Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime Minister Smuts for pro-Hitler sympathies. Malan's government promptly canceled...
...last week, some 1,500 diplomats and millionaires and their ladies gathered to sip champagne and nibble pastries in honor of the hotel's 50th birthday. None contributed more glitteringly to the glitter than a white-haired little woman who greeted them at the entrance in fluent French, English or Spanish. She was 81-year-old Marie Louise ("Mimi") Ritz, widow of the man who founded the hotel-and thereby made his name a synonym for ultra-fashionable...
Actually, there were two Millers: one was a foul-mouthed exhibitionist who admitted his reputation for using "obscene language more freely and abundantly than any other living writer in the English language"; the other was an exuberant writer with a gift for describing the vividly seamy...
Elementary. In New London, Conn., the Griswold Country Club solved the lost-golfball problem: it hired a pack of pointers and English setters and treated the balls with pheasant scent...