Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sample of the tempting sort of bait successfully used to catch spies by His Majesty's Government has now been on view in London's ancient, soot-blackened Bow Street Police Court for several weeks, officially tagged "Miss X." This slim, bobbed-hair blonde, English to judge from her accent, arrived curvesomely sheathed in clinging black, kept shifting her handsome fur piece with the sinuosity of Mae West, as she testified before a bug-eyed judge. "She is a lady," explained the Crown, refused to divulge her name...
...documents for Mr. Glading, was sent by him on minor missions, finally rented with money he gave her a London flat which she equipped to function as a document-copying factory. Here Miss X worked with a couple who said they were "Mr. & Mrs. Stevens," could speak no English, talked with her in French, and one day were suddenly recalled to Moscow, where they "disappeared...
...Brooklyn, Harry Wolf won his ninth successive national amateur squash tennis championship, proving himself as unbeatable in this sport as Jay Gould once was in court tennis, Clarence Pell in racquets. With his angled power game he beat his Montclair Athletic Club-mate Philip Moore (son of an English racquets professional from whom Wolf first learned the game at 14) in straight games...
Olmsted, Burbank, Mazel, and Bissell, all won their matches for the Crimson. Carpentier, the only graduate to lose, assumed a handicap by consenting to use the slower English ball in his match...
...double bill is excellent for those who have not yet seen "A Slight Case of Murder," now in its second run. Full of uproariously funny murders, lovable gangsters, Damon Runyon's English, and bad, bad beer, this finds Edward G. Robinson at his best...