Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well knowing the British Cabinet was splitting over Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's insistence upon policies which please France and Russia but anger Germany and Italy (see p. 22), Orator Hitler attacked the young English statesman by name, then coupled Eden with the name of a Dictator...
...British Empire were destroyed, the Führer went on pointedly to say, the United Kingdom would soon enough thirst for overseas territory as Germany thirsts today. The English did not secure their colonies by holding democratic plebiscites among the natives, continued the Chancellor, "but through naked, brutal force...
...jumping with summertime diving to keep in trim and help develop good technique. The Ruuds have a younger brother, Asbjorn, 18. who has already outjumped Birger. This is Birger's second visit to the U. S. and this trip is his honeymoon. When asked if he can speak English, his answer is "a little." Those two words are practically the limit of his English vocabulary...
Matt Mann, son of an English saloon keeper, learned to swim in the dirty streams below the woolen mills at Leeds, where the water dyed him blue one day, red the next. At 8 he was junior swimming champion of England, at 22 he went to the U. S. on a professional barnstorming tour. Robert Kiphuth was born & bred in upstate New York, took all his exercise on land. At 22 he was a punctilious instructor in physical education at Yale...
...legendary as his dress and habits is Bill McGovern's learning. He wrote a book on Japanese grammar, speaks twelve languages, is said to know more about John Galsworthy than the university's English department. Once University of Michigan's famed Pundit Jesse Siddall Reeves, fresh from a survey of the South American Chaco affair, went to lunch in Evanston's University Club, was soon questioning Bill McGovern for further in formation. Bill McGovern is now busy teaching Chinese to his four-year-old son. A friend gave him a bottle of Napoleon brandy...