Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown, and now a Providence newspaperman, as chairman, youth ran its own show in grownup style. From a big pressroom a dozen telegraph tickers sent correspondents' reports to the world press. At plenary sessions delegates had earphones (such as the League of Nations uses) through which they heard English, French or Spanish translations of speeches. Highlight: India's Yusuf Meherally shrilling: "181 years of British rule have reduced India to appalling poverty, mass illiteracy, malnutrition and disease...
...Connolly presented him with an empty docket. There had not been a single arrest in Somerville for 34 hours. Beaming even more brightly, Clerk Connolly then handed up a package from a 5-&-10? store. Contents: a pair of white gloves. Significance: When judges made a circuit of ancient English towns to hold assizes, any town which had no criminals to be tried celebrated such a "maiden assize" by presenting the judges with white gloves-because judges as a mark of submission to the Crown wore none while executing the royal commission...
...English public will fight only on the side it believes to be in the right. In England, Lord Runciman is known for his justice and honesty. His word will be good enough. . . . If it is clear that we, having been attacked, will defend ourselves to the end; and if it is clear that an unprovoked attack will have the same consequences as the attack on Belgium in 1914, then there will be no war. Because even the aggressor in his blindness knows that in such a case he will be crushed...
Identical twins, handsome Minnesota-born Ruth and Helen Hoffman have been inseparable painters, travelers and lovers of cats. So when in 1935 Ruth decided to marry an English construction engineer in Iraq named Brooks, Helen went along. We Married an Englishman, a much more proper book than it sounds, is their good-humored, comically illustrated account of the two years they spent in a tiny village 300 miles south of Bagdad, where Ruth's fiancé was building an air base...
...WRITINGS OF E. M. FORSTER-Rose Macaulay-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Fourteen years after Forster's novel, A Passage To India, his slow-growing reputation has landed him solidly among the best contemporary English novelists. Author Macaulay makes a sensitive analysis of Forster's fiction, a weaker analysis of his critical writing, is both baffled and protective in dealing with his abandonment of fiction for fugitive social and literary criticism...