Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of English and director of the Speech Clinic, stutterers often hinder their improvement in speech by an unconscious desire to continue the handicap as an excuse for not being more successful in their social and academic activities...
...year 1922 was a big year for modern literature. In that year appeared T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, Joyce's Ulysses, Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, the first (English-translated) volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The other literary landmark of that year was a startling encyclopedia, edited by Harold Stearns, called Civilization in the United States, the collective work of some 30 outspoken "young intellectuals," including such names as H.L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford. The startling thing about the book was the contributors' pessimism. While the press, economists and politicians glorified...
Rebecca is the story of a gawky young girl who marries an attractive man 20 years her elder, becoming the mistress of a great English country house and a victim of the tragedy that overhangs it. A sense of doom built up in the first few pages strikes a reader as a tour de force, brilliant but false. As the story unfolds, the sense of doom is gradually justified...
...Cape Verde Islands were hot, dusty, windy, dirty, and the Lindberghs were worried about the heavy seas which threatened their plane. Bathurst, in Gambia, was pleasant and clean and the English were helpful, but at each attempted takeoff the plane struggled, spanked along on the top of the waves, could not get free. The Lindberghs threw out extra tools, clothing, oil, said good-by to their hosts every day and returned shamefacedly to try again. When they got off at last the motor sputtered from an insufficient fuel supply, and Mrs. Lindbergh thought they were finished...
Meanwhile, he married an English girl, raised three daughters, wrote light novels (The Maker of Heavenly Trousers), composed witty epigrams (A diplomat sometimes has to deal with people who appear to be stupid. Very often they are stupid. But it is better not to count on their stupidity). His humor is infectious; his jokes are good; his friends highly placed; his tone that mixture of arch indiscretion and frivolous reticence which is found nowhere on earth except in diplomats' autobiographies. But when readers consider that through the years of his hilarity wars and revolutions swept over Europe, that...