Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning tonight at 7:30 in the CRIMSON building with the field of Anthropology, the meetings this week will be English tomorrow, Fine Arts on Thursday, and Biology on Friday...
...that occupy the thoughts of petty men, men who lack the ability to bestride the world like a Colossus in their appointed tasks of human endeavor. A figure who has led the world in his interpretation of the Romantic poets, for instance, is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. But John Livingston Lowes displays the most lovable trait of complete indifference to the Harvard catalogue, and he has from time to time announced in his lectures that he cannot remember the names and numbers of the courses in English, despite the fact that he holds the rank...
BEAT TO QUARTERS-C. S. Forester- Little, Brown ($2.50). Expert sea yarn in which an English frigate fights it out with a 50-gun Spanish warship on a strange mission to South America in Napoleon...
...DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND UNCONVENTIONAL ENGLISH - Eric Partridge - Macmillan ($12.50). Scholarly and gallant 999-page attempt to list the flood of "colloquialisms and catchphrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized" (40,000 entries in all) by an English lexicographer...
...least till Wednesday a Swiss psychological study in German called "The Eternal Mask." Your German A knowledge of German won't do you any good, but neither will your ignorance of the language do you any harm. For the striking effects of the picture are all pictorial, and superimposed English titles keep you sufficietly posted as to what's being said...