Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Both publishers meanwhile battled against time, with the result that both translations are hurried, occasionally inaccurate, always heavy and Germanic in idiom. The Stackpole version is somewhat easier reading, the Reynal & Hitchcock job has the advantage of being annotated. Arrows and daggers handily mark the sections expurgated from the English edition...
...against several diseases with a single vaccination. > Dr. Ernest François Auguste Fourneau, master of chemical therapy, known for his local anesthetics, stovaine and stovarsol. Dr. Fourneau, a serious-looking man, when asked how he happened to name his discoveries, always says that he was inspired by the English translation of Fourneau, which is "stove." In 1935, after trying 1,161 sulfonamide compounds, Dr. Fourneau finally found the formula which conquered the streptococci of puerperal fever and meningitis...
...English illustrator of children's books (1846-1901) whose water colors charmed the best artists and critics of her time...
Five Kings, Part I (adapted by Orson Welles from Shakespeare's King Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II, Henry V; produced by the Theatre Guild Inc.). When Richard Bentley, the greatest English classical scholar of his age, read Alexander Pope's famed translation of the Iliad, he remarked: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." In Boston last week, when Orson Welles presented the first half of his much-touted, much-trimmed version of Shakespeare's chronicle plays, certain it was that-pretty or otherwise-Welles should not call...
...Broadway, as in Chicago, the swing Mikado became overnight a smash hit. But Broadway was not seriously shaken. For in spite of all temptations to run wild with syncopations, the Federal Theatre's Mikado remains an English one. Four times the show's husky-duskies break out into a rash of swing, but otherwise they play The Mikado straight. They provide a pleasant, professional performance that can stand on its own legs; but with the D'Oyly Carte troupe providing a subtler and more finished show a few blocks away, daring would have been better than diffidence...