Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, an exhibition of contemporary U. S. painters that included the work of Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Benton, Charles Sheeler, John Steuart Curry, Peggy Bacon, left English critics with their bowlers clamped firmly on their heads. Declaring that half the paintings might have been done "by devoted but not very skilful admirers of contemporary French art," critics found the remainder honest but uneven, likened their effect to the blare of trombones...
...television's irksomely narrow dimensions were stretched last week in England. A group of independent radio engineers established a new distance record for reliable picture reception. Others began to install a 6 ft. by 5 ft. cinema screen for public projection of larger size television pictures. English home set screens are 24 in. by 20, or smaller...
...University is having review day today, transporting grads back to their childhood with Valentino's "Son of the Shiek." "Roberts" with Dunne, Astaire and Rogers is on the same bill. Tomorrow brings "Divorce of Lady X," a sophisticated English comedy, with Merle Oberon very attractive in Technicolor. And it will be worth sitting through half of "College Swing" to see Martha Raye, with a French accent, singing "Howja Like to Love...
...British property." At Denia, a raisin exporting centre, the French merchantman Brisbane was bombed, five seamen were killed, a British observer for the Non-intervention Committee killed and the captain injured. Farther down the coast at Alicante the British freighter St. Winifred and the 5,387-ton ship English Tanker were hit, and the British oil tanker Maryat was destroyed. Although some British captains were reported as ready to give up the lucrative Spanish Leftist trade, in which handsome bonuses for safe deliveries have been handed out, off the ports of Valencia and Alicante numerous ships still waited to unload...
...ballads of the Southern mountain folk have been kept in cold storage since the 17th Century. The hillbillies have inherited not only ballads, but also the tradition of creating them. For three years, Dr. Edwin Capers Kirkland, professor of English at the University of Tennessee, has, like Author Thomas, chased folk songs deep into the Southern Appalachians. Dr. Kirkland has found that twangy-voiced mountain singers and guitar pickers are making ballads from yesterday's newspaper headlines...