Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late to abologize" anecdote (labeled in TIME'S story as probably apocryphal) has been told of more than one conductor, including Toscanini. But Toscanini is the most improbable choice. Reason: his English, at its coolest, is limited, expletive, disconnected. In a tantrum he invariably erupts molten Italian...
George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, yesterday afternoon opened the Francis Bergen series of lectures at Yale...
...BLUNT INSTRUMENT - Georgette Heyer - Crime Club ($2). A blunt instrument finishes the philandering of a well-to-do English gentleman. Notable for amusing, effortless dialogue, engaging characters...
...CROOKED HINGE - John Dickson Carr - Harper ($2). Extremely neat puzzle involving mixed identity, murder and witchcraft in an English village. Dr. Fell provides a surprising, ultra-tricky solution...
TRENT INTERVENES - E. C. Bentley - Knopf ($2). Ingenious short stories, told in a charming, highly literate style, and featuring Philip Trent, who is something of a classic among English detectives...