Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year is 1935-36, and the figures refer to atmospheric impurities in English tons per square mile...
...Tribuna openly boasted of Italian planes from Italian-held Majorca sinking 18 ships in 19 days. Rome's Giornale d'Italia likewise boasted five foreign ships bombed by Italian planes. Regardless of this, Britain's "realistic" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is Italy's most potent English friend. On the Anglo-Italian agreement of last April-an agreement not to be implemented until Italy withdraws her forces from Rightist Spain-is staked Neville Chamberlain's political life. That life has become closer & closer to jeopardy recently as popular and Parliamentary indignation rose (see p. 21) over...
...Rome last week British Ambassador Lord Perth and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, Dictator Mussolini's son-in-law, got together. Lord Perth suggested that the Italian Government use its "discreet influence" with Generalissimo Franco to stop the bombings. Realizing that continued attacks might cause his good English friend to lose his job, Italy's dictator decided to "advise" his Spanish friend to: 1) respect the Union Jack on the high seas; 2) designate three ports in Leftist Spain where "honest traffic in goods under the international flag'' will be respected...
Died. Edward Verrall Lucas, 70, old and mild English essayist (Wanderings and Diversions, The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb), Punch contributor, head of the publishing house of Methuen & Co.; after an operation; in London...
...story centres on the relation between whites and natives. In an isolated valley in Tahiti, 16 years before the story opens, a young English widow, mother of a four-year-old son, dies while giving birth to a girl. A native woman bears a still-born child at the same time, steals the white girl, whom she calls Naia, raises her as her own. From England, when Naia is 16, comes her real brother and his friend, tall, grey-eyed Alan Hardie, a promising young scientist, son of a stiff-necked general. Hardened Melodramatists Nordhoff & Hall are careful to keep...