Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present for luncheon, Miss Helen Hayes, who plays the title role in "Victoria," witnessed the cricket play at Newton Centre later in the afternoon. The Dramatic Club members with the aid of two or three unidentifled "ringers" quite surprised themselves and their opponents by doing so well at the English game. Captain L. John Profit Sp., was quite successful in exploding the wicket, as was also Roger Sheppard '40 of the home team. At the bat James D. Lightbody '40 starred...
...first of a series of lectures entitled "Outlines of Christianity" sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House James B. Munn '12, professor of English, will give an introhuctory speech in Harvard 3 this evening at 7:30 o'clock...
Every year more men who had studied under Kitty went out into the world without an a or an o. Then the professor retired. Now, two years later, uniformity has been achieved. This year the English Department has passed a ukase that Will Shakspere be henceforth Shakespeare...
...play is a little raw here and there, were scattered murmers in the audience over the villain's stock of phrase, which happens to be the only piece of real blasphemy the English language can boast...
...years ago, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, there were four persons known, by name at least, to the most assiduous tourist and most casual habitué. These were: Flossie Martin, plump, china-cheeked ex-show girl; Kiki, black-haired, impish French painters' model; Nina Hamnett, English painter and expert on sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending...