Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarship was founded in 1899 under the will of Jacob Wendell, father of Barrett Wendell, professor of English at Harvard from...
Linking the tutees informally to the regular Harvard instructors is the formation of conferences groups in History, Economics, and English composition, under the guidance of Daniel Aaron, Lloyd G. Reynolds, and Kenneth Kempton, of the Harvard staff. Undergraduate tutors and tutees working in these fields meet with the instructors once a month for general discussions...
...Professor, U. S. critics seethed to see him wince at Americanisms, to hear him admit he had little knowledge of U. S. poetry or interest in it. He gave reticent teas, at which young Harvard intellectuals silently watched the silent poet eat cake. Eliot seemed to enjoy flaunting his English ways: "I tend," said he, "to fall asleep in club armchairs, but I believe my brain works as well as ever, whatever that is, after I have...
...nine years after hooknosed, cynical-lipped, elegant Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville's death, they seemed to Queen Victoria in "DISGRACEFULLY bad taste." Lord Winchilsea compared them to a life of the Apostles written by Judas Iscariot. Historians and biographers have long since ranked them among the greatest English political diaries. But, because some 80,000 words of the 91 red-covered notebooks were suppressed and because they were written in simple code the general impression remained that Greville's Memoirs were filled with indecent gossip...
...sprouted as quietly and as fast as the vegetable he emulates in spare time. Last month was published a great comprehensive cabbage of a book called Medieval Panorama (Macmillan $4), a hybrid of all his previous works. It is a wonderfully nourishing dish, but, like most well-boiled English cabbage, dull on the palate...