Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor Hitler "all of Africa by 2 p. m. next Saturday," asked: "What would you have said, Adolf, if I had answered 'No' when you asked for the Sudetenland?" The German Chancellor wept into his sleeve, replied: "Ach, Mr. Chamberlain. You wouldn't have been an English gentleman...
...Boer" is the Dutch form of the English word "boor" in its original meaning-farmer. In the 1830s the Dutch farmers in South Africa decided they would rather live among Zulus and Basutos than live under the thumbs of greedy English traders. Accordingly they set out in oxcarts, migrated inland. Years later they were absorbed again by the spreading sponge of British rule which made them not-too-loyal citizens of the U. S. A. (Union of South Africa...
...towns with English mayors, the mayors were allowed to welcome the wagons only on sufferance. Jewish mayors were rudely told to keep away. Finally even the pro-Boer South African Broadcasting Corp. was obliged to censor speeches. Ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church piled spiritual coals on the political fire. They declared that the wagons represented the Biblical Ark, that their axle grease would cure diseases, that children baptized in the wagons would lead blessed lives. The Czech crisis and the German pogroms were excuses for severe nationalistic outbreaks. In Johannesburg bearded Fascists fell on a band of antiFascists with...
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...Then it had the verve to produce certain dramas that Broadway wouldn't dare touch," the Pulitzer Prize playwright continued. Wilder pointed out that Oxford and Cambridge Universities invite English actors and actresses to take part in distinguished plays unsuited for commercial production. "Why the Yale Dramatic Club has been doing it," he declared, smiling...