Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melodrama is England's roly-poly, impish-eyed Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent). Last year, flushed with cinema success and much hearty beef-eating, Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations of previous Hitchcock films, but is, nevertheless, a fair sample of Hitchcock...
Although soccer, more formally known as Association Football, is the progenitor of U. S. football, as a national sport it is more like U. S. baseball. In addition to the millions of English boys and men who play the game for fun, there are several thousand paid players who make up the 500 major and minor-league professional teams. Comparable to baseball's two major leagues are the four divisions (22 teams each) of England's Football League. Like baseball's pennant winners are the top-ranking teams of each division. Faintly comparable to the World Series...
...questioning was the infallibility of the University catalogue which states dogmatically that Andre Koszul, exchange professor from France and professor of English Language and Literature, lives at the "University of Strasbourg, Germany...
Chauncey B. Tinker, Sterling Professor of English Literature at Yale and well-known author, resumed last night the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in a lecture entitled "Blake: The Gates of Paradise." His general subject is Literary Tenedencies in English Painting from...
...next time he met him in the Yard, he bowed, smiled profusely, and set about reeling off his memorized speech, involving the utmost profanity regarding the professor, his course, his ancestry, Harvard and the world in general. "I compliment you on your enterprise in picking up so many English idioms outside of your regular work," replied the professor, and the student left thinking what a good impression he had made...