Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whitney, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was sold to a real-estate agent who intends to break up its interior into apartments. Millions of moviegoers had seen its white-marble staircase as part of a Southern plantation house in Gone With the Wind, and as part of an English manor in Rebecca...
...Behind Bamboo. Japanese, on the whole, are deeply grateful to Americans; but they like military government no better than any other people. A popular quip among English-speaking Japanese holds that the letters GHQ on Americans' uniforms stand for: "Go Home Quick...
...Altoguirre and Jaudenes families (his real name is Alvarez Jaudenes). They had come from all over Spain, to claim title not to a castle in Spain, but to a castle in America. All were armed with "proof" that they were descendants of an 18th Century Spanish diplomat and his English wife who left a U.S. fortune estimated at $300 million-part of which included the land on which the White House stands...
...feet and puffing a big cigar after many toasts, he let them in on his plans. He would continue to record, for the "benighted and tone-starved multitudes of the New World who lack the advantages of English musical culture." More important, he let them in on the anatomy of his vitriol: "There is something about a large gathering that brings out my basest instincts. Before a crowd of 1,000, I am malicious. Before 5,000, I am positively evil, and, facing a crowd of 10,000, I am compelled to say the most abominable things...
...order had a drastic effect on war news in Shanghai's 25 Chinese and four English-language newspapers. Before the order, the newspapers had carried such headlines as: KASHING CAPTURED BY RED TROOPS ; COMMUNISTS RACING SOUTH, EAST TO ISOLATE SHANGHAI AREA. Post-Censorship headlines: HASHING STILL IN GOVERNMENT HANDS; SHANGHAI AREA GUARDED BY CRACK GOVERNMENT TROOPS...