Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February 2-Speaking of the Pope's illness, just say, without making it appear a real denial, that the news about the expected arrival of an English physician is false...
...marble group called Mystery of Life, at its top an 87-ft. Tower of Legends. Over the threats and legal objections of California morticians, Forest Lawn was the first large cemetery in the U. S. to install its own mortuary. There is also an Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with a Memorial Court of Honor, Memorial Terrace, Sanctuaries of Meditation, Vespers, Benediction, Trust and Truth. For Jean Harlow, William Powell chose...
...days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...
Interviewed by newshawks in his office at the Winterhalter School, Janitor Denhardt calmly displayed his two caps (one with a special officer's badge for directing traffic), a tin lunch bucket, a neat list of his day's duties beginning "Faucets to be repaired," a pile of English and German books. No ordinary janitor, Adam Denhardt was a German teacher for 33 years until he was pensioned off in 1924. When he and his wife Agate went to the U. S., leaving their three daughters behind, the only job he could get was one as "house father...
Elected. Maurice Duperrey, French industrialist and linguist (French, Spanish, English, German, Italian, Esperanto); to the presidency of Rotary International; at the 28th annual convention in Nice. Backed by France's No. 1 Rotarian, genteel President Albert Lebrun. Maurice Duperrey breaks the longtime U. S. grip on Rotary International's presidency. Rotary-International's immediate objective: improved Franco-German relations...