Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mention in the current issue of TIME [Feb. 14] regarding the arrival in this country of Lord Leverhulme, English soap magnate, recalls an amusing incident at the time the first Lord Leverhulme, then but plain W. H. Lever, made his debut in British politics...
...nicest of English prelates, Lord William certainly had the nicest white whiskers of any of them. As he cycled at a merry speed round his Devonshire See, his whiskers and Episcopal apron flapped in the wind and anyone could tell a mile off who was coming. Because of his thick whiskers which hid a very jolly face, his clergy nicknamed him "Love in a mist...
Nothing of importance was found on Spy Rumrich but crude drawings of a plane and a tank. Spy Hofmann who spoke no English and whose orange-colored hair showed traces of dye, was arrested on the Europa with several letters she had been engaged to deliver, including one offering $1,000 for information about the Navy aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. Rumrich and Glaser had both been stationed during their Army service in the Canal Zone. Only document of importance which it was suggested they might have stolen was a copy of the secret codes of the Air Service...
...William Emet Blatz, who has charge of the Dionne Quintuplets' education, reported his charges were of average intelligence. Their mental growth was retarded by their premature birth, but they are now advancing more rapidly than normal children in everything except language (they are learning both French and English). Dr. Blatz expects that in a year or two their I. Q.'s will be between 95 and 105. He is studying them to seek new light on the "timeworn problem of whether heredity or environment is most important in the development of personality." Most aggressive, most disobedient and greatest...
Professor Lake claimed that the best method, speaking from his own experience, was the requirement of classical education that only the best English be used in the translation of the classical languages. He characterized this statement by pointing out how ridiculous it was for Harvard students to write "silly little essays on the sunset over the Charles River...