Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reason, and Masonry's doctrine of fraternity, equality and enlightenment had a wide appeal. Frederick the Great became a member. Russian aristocrats took it up. English traders distributed charters for new lodges overseas. George Washington and Paul Revere were ardent brethren. So was Benjamin Franklin, deist and moralizer, who helped initiate Voltaire into the rites...
...that a dragonfly is a great help in filling out an isogloss. Yankees in some parts of New England call it a devil's darning needle, while some Southern Coast people go for mosquito hawk, and the Pennsylvania-Dutch merely turn the Old Country name for it into English: snake waiter...
...York Daily News, has been solving the problem by importing good movies; last year, it bought from Sir Alexander Korda the rights to 24 British films. Now that the last Korda movies are being televised, WPIX is ready with a new 13-film package-a mixed bag of eleven English and two American hits of a decade...
Mozart: Sonata in B Flat, K. 454 (Georg Kulenkampff, violin; Georg Sold, piano; English Decca, 6 sides). A clean, forthright performance of a minor classic. Recording: excellent...
...Grove. All these arguments are plausible enough, but they cannot hold soup when the pro-beards come into action. Beavered Irishmen, for example, have always insisted that a beard is much handier and more absorbent than a table napkin (Author Reynolds concedes that his source for this is an English historian). Similarly, the 19th Century French Romantics demonstrated beyond doubt that by growing a broad enough beard a man could wear the same shirt collar for months on end. Moreover, as one authority has estimated, a bearded man could learn seven languages in the time spent not shaving...