Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French and Spanish Leftist Governments. Declared prominent British Laborite Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, M. P.: "I desire to make it clear that members on the Labor benches are ready to support any action which, without injuring our position, is of benefit to the other democratic nation across the English Channel...
...Atlantic City, N. J., the Steel Pier Opera Company last week began its tenth season with an English production of Il Trovatore. Henri Elkan again conducted. Other operas listed: Verdi's Rigoletto, von Flotow's Martha, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana...
...Rogers' scheme was to get settled in Michilimackinac, then start west on a three-year expedition to the Pacific. The Northwest Passage he hoped to find was not the undiscovered outlet of Hudson Bay but an overland route. He needed money and no money was forthcoming from his English sponsors. His American superiors, Sir William Johnson and General Gage, feared and disliked Rogers, did everything they could to hamstring him. While Langdon Towne and a small party set off to find the Northwest Passage for him, Rogers had to stay fuming in Michilimackinac. When the expedition came to grief...
...World War years, most German-Americans agree that their neighbors' spy hysteria shattered not only their nerves but, for a time, their faith in the U. S. as well. Yet during that frantic period, Austrian Immigrant Ludwig Bemelmans, a 19-year-old U. S. Army recruit whose English could barely be understood, almost completely escaped the spy mania and acquired an affection for the U. S. that embraced factory landscapes, a "wondrously beautiful" prostitute and the insane. My War with the United States, a translation of his German diary, is the record of that sunny Americanization. Smiling readers will...
...world of his reputation as the equal of Montaigne, Rabelais, Renan, Voltaire. Most contemporary writing about him has reflected this opinion. With the possible exception of Proust the most-written-about French writer of the last century, Anatole France has not yet been the subject of a definitive English biography. Why biographers have been scared away may be surmised by reading Author Dargan's volume, a 729-pager which took ten years to write and covers only 52 of France's 80 years. Author Dargan, Professor of French Literature at the University of Chicago, excuses himself from covering...