Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like A Trip to Mars, By Rocket to the Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...
Died. Harry Wardman, 65, Washington real-estate magnate; of cancer; in Washington. An English-born immigrant, he had seven shillings in his pocket when he arrived in Manhattan in 1892 after he had boarded a boat which he supposed was carrying him to Australia. Starting as a contractor's timekeeper, he entered the construction business in Washington, built upwards of 9,000 row houses, several hotels and apartment houses, was said to have been landlord to one in every ten Washingtonians. In 1930, when Hotel Management & Securities Corp. took over his apartments and hotels, he lost most...
...thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested him. Since these turn out to be mainly literature and the theatre, most of The Slimming Up is given over to studied critical comment: opinions on the prose of Dryden and Swift, on the literary value of the writings of English philosophers, on professional writers as opposed to amateurs, on the reasons for the egotism of actors, on the pernicious influence of Bernard Shaw on the English stage, on the excitement of rehearsals and the confused & troubling experience of first nights. Maugham's criticism is neither theatrical nor brilliant. It resembles...
...WAKE THE DEAD-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). An English couple, just returned from South Africa with a group of friends, are brutally murdered, a few days apart and in different parts of England. Scotland Yard suspects all members of their party, all of whom suspect each other. Genial, astute Dr. Fell solves one of his most opaque jobs...
Since the Crimson attack was principally based on a running offensive, while the English ruggers were more dependent on kicking, the rain and slippery field were serious handicaps to the Varsity...