Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meeting. Handa engineered a meeting with the founder of the new religion, moonfaced Zenjiro Nagumo, a sleek, smooth-tongued evangelist who spiced his exhortations with crisp English phrases, Mohammedan aphorisms and quotations from the Buddhist sutras. "Here," said Handa breathlessly, "is a man after my own heart. He has faith...
Died. Charles Round Low Cloud, 76, Indian columnist since 1919 for the weekly Black River Falls Banner-Journal (circ. 5,503), who "thought in Winnebago and wrote in English" and whose punctuation-less comments* on current events were reprinted by many a daily U.S. newspaper; in Back River Falls...
Amigos & Atoms. Editor Harrison puts out a partially bilingual paper. He sprinkles Spanish words through the English news stories, even uses them in headlines (VAUGHAN'S AMIGOS BLABBING). He thinks it a good day when he can run on Page One "a political scandal, an archeological discovery, a sculptor's prize, and an Indian fracas-all local...
Amigos & Atoms. Editor Harrison puts out a partially bilingual paper. He sprinkles Spanish words through the English news stories, even uses them in headlines (VAUGHAN'S AMIGOS BLABBING). He thinks it a good day when he can run on Page One "a political scandal, an archeological discovery, a sculptor's prize, and an Indian fracas-all local...
...home in triumph to tell his dominating mamma where she can get off. Sir William and Despina didn't live ever after, but they did live for quite a while and got along fine. To readers who know 41-year-old Osbert Lancaster's irreverent books on English architecture and his tartly urbane Classical Landscape with