Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main feature of Raleigh romances has been that, since none of the brides could speak English and none of the bridegrooms French, all have been conducted in a "sign language," about the efficacy of which, through an interpreter, brides and bridegrooms last week were equally enthusiastic...
...search of the happiest subject, contemporary British novelists seldom look in their own industrial back yard, prefer instead when tired of the front-lawn and front-street side of English life to search in some other part of the world, especially where the climate is warm. As a traveler, Yorkshireman Eric Knight is no exception to the rest. As a writer he bristles with exceptions, the main one being that he has uncovered in a neglected corner of England's industrial back yard-the Yorkshire textile mill country-material for one of the sturdiest novels to cross the Atlantic...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
During his 17 years of assignments as Moscow correspondent of the New York Times small, blue-eyed, acute Walter Duranty (Write as I Please), an "effervescent little English expatriate with a faint air of skulldruggery about him," has acquired an impressive reputation not only as No. 1 U. S. foreign correspondent but also as the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. Readers of his first novel, One Life, One Kopeck (titled after a Russian proverb meaning "Life is not worth a damn") may feel that Correspondent Duranty has now added to that reputation the right to be called...
...jaded crew of idlers called the Galère, who assemble in Paris, London. Venice and New York, indulge in easy, intermittent love affairs, drive fast cars, make scandals for the tabloids by being interviewed in crowded beds, and generally delight in their reputations for wickedness. A pale, pretty English War widow, Bianca does not really belong with them. She observes them first with detached interest, later plays their game with ironic humor, tries unsuccessfully to prevent their irresponsibility from climaxing in tragedy...