Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real Lady Godiva (Saxon name: Godgifu) made her traditional ride in the middle of the eleventh century in the English town of Coventry. Her husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Lord of Coventry, agreed to remit his oppressive taxation on the town if Lady Godiva would ride the streets naked. Ordering all persons within doors behind closed shutters, the Lady mounted a white charger and ambled through, the crooked streets, clothed only in her long hair. But through one shutter peeked an itchy little tailor. Lady Godiva spotted him but before she could reprove him, a greater punishment was meted...
...super-ballet was preparing for a somewhat delayed London opening, it leaked out that the constellations of Universal's new universe had collided. De Basil, who had not personally signed any agreement with Universal, denied flatly that any merger had taken place, claimed that he could not speak English and had not understood the terms of Universal's proposal. Universal Art promptly sued de Basil, only to find, in court, that de Basil no longer owned the scenery and production rights of the de Basil Ballet, but had sold them to a new organization, Educational Ballets...
...bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried on systematic campaigns against English politicians in the past, native good nature suffused his drawings of them: Eden always looked timid and well-meaning; Squire Baldwin crafty and battered but not dangerous; Lloyd George disarmingly arch and jolly even when, by Cartoonist Low's lights, he was up to no good. There...
...Champion Budge disposed of Bunny Austin who was playing excellent tennis even though he had become a father during the tournament. With this victory Donald Budge became the only player ever to hold the Big Four championships of ten-nis (U. S., Australian, French, English) simultaneously and the only man ever to win at Wimbledon without the loss of a set. Next day he won the men's doubles (with Gene Mako) and the mixed doubles (with Alice Marble), and became the only person ever to win three Wimbledon championships two years in a row. But by complete supremacy...
Inconsequential performance below the level of Norah Lofts's best work; the story of an English girl who makes a fortune writing popular songs, buys the old family house, gets her sisters home for a sentimental reunion, finds them all drifting their own ways as distant as ever...