Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from one busy front to another, the Internationals' casualties have been staggeringly high. They filled up bad gaps of a slowly forming Leftist Army in the early days of the war. The French volunteers led in numbers, followed by Poles, German exiles (Thaelmann Battalion), Italian exiles (Garibaldi Battalion), English, the U. S. volunteers (Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, later simply Lincoln-Washington Battalion), Canadians (Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion), many Central Europeans...
...Tilden beat Hunter. Last week Budge followed suit-but not before dropping a set to his crony, 6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1 -and thereby accomplished what no other tennist had ever done: won the Big Four championships of the world (Australian, French, English, U. S.) in one year...
...National Velvet" Enid Bagnold won a big U. S. audience with a slight story about an English girl and a race horse...
...central character of The Door of Life is a middle-aged woman of the upper middle class, who is referred to throughout as "the squire." This in itself is likely to be a little confusing to U. S. readers, who usually think of English squires as ruddy, irascible old gents, more or less akin to Kentucky Colonels. So when they read about the squire picking up her sewing, putting on her evening dress and performing other distinctly feminine duties, their surprise tends to make them miss the point of Miss Bagnold's story. The squire, it turns...
...there is such confusion downstairs -the cook leaves because she cannot stand childbirth, another turns out to be immoral, the butler hates women, his substitute is a drunk and a maid is discharged for theft-that readers are likely to forget that Author Bagnold is picturing the fortitude of English mothers, not the corruption of English domestics...