Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank you for telling us (TIME, Oct. 30) what the English poets who were the youth of 1914 are doing under the impact of the new war. Would it be possible to elicit a statement of their present mental attitudes from Sassoon and Graves? They are of the tried troops of both action and thought, at once brave soldiers and honest men. It is appropriate to recall that Sassoon in 1917 made a public protest against the prolongation of the war in the following words...
...loading weapon called the Bureau of Public Information. While Nazi planes ripped up Poland, the allied bombers buried the country-side with pamphlets. Along the Westwall, scores of victrolas blared at the French through loudspeakers: "Lay down your arms. We have no quarrel with you." From their Whitehall desks English officials are preaching to the world a poilus legend of crusade...
...other hand, Dorothy Lamour as an orientalized American is distinctly wooden--not only in her acting but in her attempt at speaking English with an accent. It seems that Paramount has taught her some Chinese for the picture; for those who are interested, it can be understood, but it recks of Brooklyn...
...short ceremony, John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, will give an informal address, and immediately afterwards a tea will be held for the Friends of Widener Library, an organization made up of interested graduates and undergraduates of the college...
...marked the high-point for the number of full professorships in English, and this was caused by three promotions, all occurring at the same time. In that year, Professor Bush; Robert S. Hillyer '17, present Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; and Francis P. Magoun '16, Professor of Comparative Literature, were all advanced...