Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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International Track Meet (Mon. 11:15 a. m., MBS). No. 1 English meet by short wave from White City Stadium, London...
After the ceremony, as the King and Queen drove off to rejoin their train and be whisked to the Channel, then to England, a young Deputy of the French Chamber arose and recited in English to the gathering of French and Australian officials...
...most momentous test case in the history of the English law covering abortion packed London's grimy Old Bailey courtroom last week with skilled physicians from Harley and Wimpole Streets, earnest young medical students, smart socialites. Defendant in the case, charged with performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was seven weeks with child, was a lean, greying, studious man, Dr. Aleck William Bourne, 52, top-flight gynecologist and obstetrician...
...great French victory. But, as Vincent Sheean says, "it was a victory of lost causes; it raised hopes which were never to be satisfied," it seemed that France had vanquished England, and that the hopes of the Irish exiles, of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," were to triumph. But the English fleet still ruled the seas, and French colonies in Canada and India were soon to be lost despite Fontenoy. In A Day of Battle, Sheean (Personal History) set himself the difficult task of both describing the brilliance of this victory and illustrating its historic unimportance...
...Battle begins with a picture of the Irish troops preparing for battle, quarreling, boasting of the wonders of the old country, sneering at the French, saying Mass as the artillery of the English opens across the plains. It ends, 304 pages later, with the Irish resting in the same position at nightfall. Between these episodes Mr. Sheean has packed much historical enlightenment into a little space: pictured the luxury of the court of Louis XV, who traveled to the front with innumerable servants, 600 horses and 28 cooks; given a glimpse of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour at Etioles; sketched...