Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...service to a university for a teacher to make himself irreplacable. And if Professor Lowes has done this, it is only for the moment. In the next ten years the English Department will know a new burst of activity, a new striving for scholarship, a new set of names to become famous. And in this Professor Lowes will see a tangible reward for his labor and the most moving tribute a teacher can receive...
...Gordon Grand is a retired lawyer. His most successful Derrydale book was inspired by a visiting English sportsman who told of luring rats to a baited brushpile, potting them as terriers chased them...
Last week the taste of Mozart's letters offered by Critic Turner was extended into a whole banquet by the publication for the first time in English of the complete Mozart family correspondence.** Gathering, editing and translating the 600-odd letters of the collection had cost Emily Anderson, a publicity-shy British music-lover and scholar, ten years of scholarly effort. Readers of the newly-published letters found Critic Turner's impressions confirmed, found further that Composer Wolfgang Amadeus and his shrewd, harried Father Leopold Mozart were penetrating and sometimes irreverent observers of the manners of their time...
...Suspicious Mr. Thompson went to Dun & Bradstreet and was told the reports were forgeries. Next Mr. Thompson began checking up on W. W. Smith and on another Montreal firm, Manning & Co., which seemed to be "a sort of fiscal agent, a sort of a fiscal agent in the English sense, a sort of a banking firm." Manning's Montreal staff consisted of a female secretary...
Died. The four favorite saddle horses of the late British-born Queen Maud of Norway; destroyed (according to her wish, because she could not bear to think of them passing into other hands); at her English home in Sandringham...