Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barbarous." Significantly added was the statement that the U. S. still adhered to a non-intervention policy. Night before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, speaking in Nashville, declared that the U. S. was willing to join in a conference at The Hague for "humanizing" war practices. To an English invitation to America to join in the bombings investigating committee, the U. S. seemed likely to decline, however...
...Augustus Wilkins, director of foreign language study in New York City's public high schools, announced that 5,000 New York schoolboys and schoolgirls soon would begin to exchange letters with an equal number of French youngsters. The U. S. children will write in French, the French in English, each will correct the other. But the French Correspondance Scolaire Internationale, sponsor of this friendly and educational gesture, insisted on one restriction which Mr. Wilkins could explain only as an old French custom: French boys may write to U.S. girls, but U. S. boys may not write to French girls...
Hero was Marvin Ward, generally regarded as the weakest member of the U.S. team, who bettered Bobby Jones's amateur record for the St. Andrews course by shooting a 67 in the morning round of his match with English Champion Frank Pennink, drubbed him, 12 & 11. The widely touted, 200-lb. Irish schoolboy, 18-year-old Jim Bruen, got a typical case of Walker Cup jitters, lost to light-hearted Charley Yates, recently crowned British Amateur champion. U. S. Amateur Champion Johnny Goodman played in two losing matches...
...would be practical to instruct in the Rockefeller Institute's Stygian laboratories. Incidentally, the books should still a number of wild rumors of occult doings at the Institute which the penny press has spread through the lay world. Such rumors are typified by the recent announcement in English newspapers that Charles Lindbergh was preparing to have his heart removed and replaced by an indestructible one from grateful Dr. Carrel's stock. In point of fact, however, the Carrel-Lindbergh-Parker books boldly point to a medical future only slightly less fabulous...
...critics have cried unfair tactics, notably some English reviewers who seem to feel that such syllabic pruning and repairing is too much like filing the parts of a jig-saw puzzle to make them fit. If such were the case, Mr. Nash's poems would not present an understandable picture of what he primarily intended to say; but actually he is highly successful in presenting his ideas in a humorous fashion. Outside of one or two of the strange case-histories, which degenerate into vehicles for a pet pun inserted at the end, Mr. Nash has written an excellent, laughable...