Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trafalgar Day Speech, she cautioned : "Have you thought how this would sound back home? You know, Dear, our ambassadors are supposed to lose all their powers of resistance when they get to London. You don't want folks to get the idea that you are seeing things through English eyes...
From Traditionalist Bagley: In your opinion, should our public schools prepare boys and girls for adult responsibilities through systematic training in such subjects as reading, writing, arithmetic, history and English, requiring mastery of such subjects, and, when necessary, stressing discipline and obedience, with informal learning recognized but regarded as supplementary rather than central...
Five of a Kind (Twentieth Century-Fox) indicates that something drastic will have to be done about the Dionne Quintuplets. In this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...
...military sense. But it ruined the U. S. merchant marine. Rebel raiders and privateers sank or destroyed 200 ships worth $30,000,000. Since merchants would not ship in Northern vessels for fear of raiders, almost the entire fleet, totaling 6,000,000 tons, was sold to English interests for the bargain price of $42,000,000, leaving the U. S. at the end of the Civil War with only 1,000,000 tons, largely obsolete...
...Chapayev," which was screened in 1934, is the powerful story of a Red commander during the Revolution, written by the widow of the political commissar who accompanied him into battle. To those who do not understand the Russian language, the film offers English sub-titles in addition to fine choral music and the direction and acting of Russia's finest artists...