Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well Run. In Princeton last week against a combined Princeton-Cornell team, Britain's Bannister demonstrated the casual approach. In the mile, he loped along with a nine-foot stride. When he decided to take over, he spurted to the front. In characteristic English fashion he glanced over his shoulder, once almost took a header running too close to the track's concrete curb-and still won in 4:11.1. It was the second-fastest mile run on U.S. cinders this year...
...letter was addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes, 221B Baker Street, London, England; it was postmarked Cleveland, Miss. Wrote 19-year-old Coed Laquita Joyce Bell of Delta State Teachers College: "Dear Mr. Holmes: My English teacher told me something would happen if I wrote you. He refused to tell me what. This aroused my curiosity, so here I sit, feeling rather silly, writing...
...221B Baker Street something did happen that not even Miss Bell's English teacher had foreseen. The first issue of the London Mystery Magazine, a high-brow whodunit monthly, was published from that address, and 40,000 copies were on sale last week (at 50?) on newsstands all over Britain. Soon, London Mystery will invade the U.S. market, to match its wits against Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (circ. 150,000), which now dominates the mystery-magazine field...
...back in 1917, many readers decided that they had found their man. Christopher Morley was clever with a whimsical plot and wrote in the studied, slightly archaic style of another century. The tweedy, pipe-smoke flavor of his looks and books reminded many of the country-squire tradition among English men of letters. With each succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie's tenderness and Robert Louis Stevenson's romance flocked after a new hero who could give them the illusion of a jovial literary know-it-all in the midst...
...happy-making pornography for the masses. In short, the grim, grey London Times could not have been referring to Winston and Julia when it snorted contemptuously: "Old-thinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc," i.e., "Those whose ideas were formed before the Revolution cannot have a full emotional understanding of the principles of English Socialism...