Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Worcester '28, instructor in English will succeed Garrett Birkhoff, instructor in Mathematics, as head tutor of Lowell House, it was announced recently by Julian L. Coolidge '95, House Master. Birkhoff recently an announced his engagement...
Waiter Marlowe found it hard to get used to the poor wages and strait-jacket discipline of English waiters, but harder to stomach the double-dyed snobbery of his fellows, the hyper-finickiness of aged guests. He was mighty glad to go to sea again. Three months after her maiden voyage he made a trip on the Queen Mary. It was his hardest job. Eighteen-hour shifts, plus the teeth-rattling vibration in crew quarters directly over the propellers, made him pine for land once more...
SHIPS IN THE SKY-Gunnar Gunnars-son-Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). Although Iceland is known to Europeans for the lively ferment of its modern literary movement, few modern Icelandic novelists have been translated into English. In Europe, 49-year-old Gunnar Gunnarsson, author of 30-odd books and plays, ranks with Scandinavian writers of the calibre of Selma Lagerlöf. Ships in the Sky is considered his major work. A long, simply written, autobiographical novel, it tells the story of a redheaded, imaginative peasant boy named Uggi Greipsson. Its distinguishing qualities are an unforced humor combined with uninhibited sentiment, clear...
Canter, Racine, and Turetzky are veterans in the spelling game. Winner this year, Cantor says he went down in last year's big been on finial. Kean is an Englishman. The Radcliffe representatives lived up to their advance reputation. The American women handed the spelling order, while the English lasses both bulwarks for Albion, came last...
...favorable. "Obviously the most beautiful woman who has ever been in Widener Library" seemed to be the consensus of these preparing for the State Government examination in the Government section of the Reading Room--" An exquisite blonde of Junoesque preparations, didn't you think," just about summed up the English tables, while the Library official who conducted the four contented himself with one of the greatest understatements of the new year. "Um rather an attractive girl, I thought." he said...