Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only once in the history of the English-speaking theatre has one man been a partner in two firms that have both become household names. In the 1920s, the best-known playwrighting partnership in the U. S. was that of Kaufman & Connelly. In the 1930s it has been that of Kaufman & Hart...
...other devices, beginning with the price, calculated to put the stuff over with the people. Two sizes of type are employed: large type for essentials, small type for skipping (some of the best things in the book). At the end appears an absurd and appealing glossary, defining 18 non-English terms used in the text, including bourgeoisie, élan, bizarreries...
...English correspondents and visitors, she has good to say of Hemingway, Jay Allen, Josephine Herbst, Dorothy Parker, Joe North; bad of Errol Flynn, Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwood...
Moment in Peking, Lin Yutang's first novel, is modeled exactly on traditional Chinese novels. Almost 100 characters crowd its 815 close-print pages; it is written with almost Basic English simplicity. Crammed with incident, but plotless, Moment in Peking chronicles the history of three wealthy middle-class Chinese families, from the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when its heroine, ten-year-old Mulan, is kidnapped by soldiers, to New Year's, 1938, when she joins the epic flight of 40,000,000 high-spirited refugees into China's vast interior...
...Translated by Pearl Buck, it is the only classic Chinese novel in English...