Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canals, railroads and highways throughout the continent froze over or were blocked with drifting snow. Ships in the North and Baltic Seas and English Channel scuttled to port. While adults labored to dig Europe out, and to distribute food, coal and Christmas cheer over damaged communication systems, children were delighted. In London, for the first time in ten years, there was enough snow for snowballs, and at Versailles there was skating on the Grand Canal. Casualties: 200 dead. Most inexcusable casualty: the freezing to death of ten German-Jewish refugees in a camp on the German-Polish border...
...editor of Funk & Wagnalls' New Standard Dictionary; of pneumonia and pleurisy; in Manhattan. British-born, Dr. Vizetelly became a battler for U. S. colloquialisms ("cootie," "boloney," "chiseler," "it's me," "go slow," "pretty good," "loan me a pencil," "can I go"). In 1925 he proposed that the English alphabet be enlarged from 26 to 62 letters to provide one symbol for each sound, a plan which, it was estimated, would necessitate re-spelling of most of the 550,000 words in the language...
Died. Robert Herrick, 70, veteran novelist of departed social issues (The Memoirs of an American Citizen, Together, The Master of the Inn), onetime (1905-23) professor of English at the University of Chicago, Government secretary of the Virgin Islands since 1935; of a heart attack; in Charlotte Amalie...
...Britain's Genealogists' Magazine, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms Anthony Richard Wagner produced a genealogy showing Neville Chamberlain to be a 19th-generation descendant of Edward I (1239-1307), who was known alternately as "Longshanks" and "The English Justinian...
Youngest child of elderly parents, Eliot at Harvard was tense, sensitive and reserved. His Advocate contemporaries say he was English in everything but accent and citizenship. His remarks were quiet, witty, precise but not precious. He smoked a pipe, liked to be alone, carefully avoided slang, and dressed with the studied carelessness of a future dandy...