Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plug." It was the universally accepted insignia of respectability and gentlemanliness. And as to his "walking down Broadway" in it, that had no more connotation of an American Pope than his walking down Piccadilly, the Rue de la Paix or Unter den Linden would have connoted an English, French or German Pope. In fact, I never heard of any one taking the Doctor's phrase for an intimation that he desired to see an American Pope until I read it in Frank McGlynn's letter...
Reclining at Bath, famed English spa, His Majesty Haile Selassie complained bitterly last week to Miss Steedman, a Secretary of the Abyssinia Association, about the results thus far of announcements that the onetime King of Kings & Lion of Judah is in a "distressed condition" (TIME...
...Sphinx. About his own music Sibelius is cagey. Some have called him Sphinxlike, and he has found the description a great convenience. Nowadays, when English-speaking visitors get too inquisitive about how he composes or when his next symphony will be finished, he replies with regretful, laconic shrug: "I, Sphinx." There are grounds to suspect that he has quantities of early unpublished compositions stored about the house, that he has already outlined the movements of a Ninth Symphony in addition to those of his forthcoming Eighth. A visitor's inquisitiveness invariably brings the same Finnish shrug, the favorite, inevitable...
...waiting for her, first theatre building in America. The play she chose to open it was George Farquhar's bawdy Recruiting Officer, which fine-limbed ladies of the frank 18th Century theatre liked to play because it clothed them part of the time in the tight breeches of English soldiery...
Damsel in Distress (RKO Radio) sends Fred Astaire dancing into a foggy English countryside to rescue fair-haired, big-featured Joan Fontaine from the errant vagaries of a typical P. G. Wodehouse story. Not so lissome a heroine as light-footed Ginger Rogers (temporarily otherwise engaged), inexperienced Actress Fontaine (Olivia de Havilland's sister) goes gamely but somewhat lumberingly through the curvets and caracoles required of her. Far more facile as an Astaire partner is, of all people, rumpish Radio Dunce Gracie Allen, who with her harassed husband, George Burns, makes up the Astaire party...