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Word: englishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English is ut? Th' Sassanachs wha beheaded King Chairlie an' gar th' Bonnie Prince hisel tae flee tae France. An' noo they'd commit th' sacrilege o' mudrerin' th' name o' th' Standard Bearer himsel. altho' weel they ken that when God or th' Empire want something hard dane, He or It send lor th' Scots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Chairlie, for th' Jacobites, for Auld Scotia! Th' English canna dae tae Scrymgeour what they've done tae th' Cholmondeleys, th' Leveson Cowers, th' Majoribanks an' th' St. Johns, pronoonced Chumley, Leeson-Gore, Marshbanks an' Sinjin. Scrymgeour was just that afore th' Saxons landed. A rouse tae ye, TIME, but watch yer step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...mistaken, most of the above come out of the English thieves' jargon; maybe I am mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...middle of the room obviously with their favorite partner, and those dancing around the edge of the ballroom which is the shop-window of the stag line, so they chatted and smiled vivaciously at the surplus males. Yes, the American deb is obviously out to please, unlike the English deb. . . . Precisely the same plump little figures you see in Mayfair, their hair is neither as well cared for nor as well dressed, their complexions are often poor and their clothes also are dowdy by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: At the White House | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...hypocrisy and demoralized pacifism" Czechoslovakia was betrayed by European democracies so that Fascism would be strengthened for its role as hired gunman against Russia--a role which Hitler promises to play in "Mein Kampf." This brief essay condemns, in language at once controlled and vitriolic, the "pro-fascist" English statesmen for their leading role in this "foulest page of modern history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

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