Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press. He was called back to Paris to become Chief of the American Section of the Quai d'Orsay, but State Department propheteers are sure he will ultimately return as Ambassador. He is the ace of the French diplomatic service in dealing with persons who speak English or American. He speaks both to perfection-either clipped, impeccable King's English or broad, robust United States...
...Poetry," will be the subject of a lecture by Sir Herbert Grierson, Professor of Aberdeen University Scotland, in Emerson D, Thursday, April 28 at 4:30 o'clock. Sir Herbert is credited with several standard texts on poetry and is one of the authors of the Cambridge History of English Literature. He is speaking under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
...carefully fitted as the parts of a machine. A symphony orchestra in good running order has from 28 to 34 violinists, from twelve to 14 viola players, from ten to twelve cellists, from eight to twelve contrabassists., It must have one piccolo player, two flutists, two oboists, an English-horn player, two clarinetists, a bass clarinetist, two bassoonists, a contrabassoonist, four or five horn players, three trumpeters, three trombonists, a tuba player, a kettledrummer, and a harpist. Each of these musical specialists is indispensable to the proper functioning of the mechanism. A symphony orchestra without a kettledrummer, for instance...
Twenty years ago Carleton Beals landed in Mexico City. He had "youth, a good physique, two university degrees," but no money, and his clothes were in rags. Since then he has witnessed four Mexican revolutions, once taught military English to Carranza's staff, lectured on Shakespeare to the women of Mexico City's American colony, was held incommunicado by a Mexican general for an unflattering article, is now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America...
Slow-moving story, with first-rate characterizations and well-developed English village atmosphere, in which a fussy, ambitious lawyer turns into a murderer before the reader's eyes...