Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portals no man may pass-officially. Of course one manages to slip in, thus providing a thread to the tale and bringing pretty Danielle Darrieux (this time, in contrast to her star-crossed Marie Vetsera in Mayerling, a lively minx) a climax of illicit motherhood. Manhattan censors ordered an English subtitle indicating that Danielle and her young man (Raymond Gall) have been secretly married all along...
Awarded. To Mrs. Drew Pearson, wife of the Washington columnist; exclusive custody and care of Tyler Abell, 5, her son by her first husband, Washington Journal ist George Abell; in Reno, Nev. In August Mr. & Mrs. Pearson pursued George and Tyler Abell to the Island of Sark, in the English Channel, "kidnapped" Tyler. The court held that George Abell forfeited custody of Tyler by violating a previous Nevada decree forbidding him to take Tyler...
...with the help of famed Jockey Tod Sloan who was imported from England for the occasion, a Whitney horse, Ballyhoo Bey, won the Futurity Stakes, richest race in the world for 2-year-olds. Next year Volodyovski, racing in the silks of William Collins Whitney, won the English Derby and gleeful Mr. Whitney set up Coney Island Jockey Club to $6,000 worth of champagne...
...Pennsylvania is a plan to build a small experimental college and athletic fields in Valley Forge, 22 miles from the noisy city campus on Walnut Street. To start with 50 freshmen, the tiny college I will instruct selected students by the tutorial method mainly in American history, government and English for a fee of about $1,250 a year. Other drive aims: strengthening the faculty, more money for research, more scholarships, new chemistry and library buildings, extension of the museum...
...Each of these should be assigned a separate letter, according to the nomenclature suggested by Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist who in 1911 invented the word vitamin to describe these food elements essential to good health. But there are not enough letters in the English alphabet to go around. In addition to that difficulty, special students of vitamins are so bewildered by the mounting mass of facts about vitamins, that Professor Clive Maine McCay of Cornell put his tongue in his cheek and wrote for last week's Science...