Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Victoria had been annoyed on Dec. 14 it became impossible to resist her will and the baby became "Prince Albert," later "Prince Albert, Duke of York" (premature headlines even made him "King Albert" upon the abdication of Edward VIII). Since it happens that "Albert" is a name the English simply do not like, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin had the Royal Family and everyone else with him in undoing the work of Queen Victoria and announcing that His Majesty is King George VI (TIME, Dec. 21). He was christened "Albert Frederick Arthur George...
...Scottish impression that he had been sent. She unaffectedly told His Royal Highness that she could not, she really could not accept a suitor who had been sent. This was in her father's frowning Glamis Castle where, according to Shakespeare, Macbeth murdered Duncan, and the English press likes to repeat its tale of the commoner daughter of a Scottish earl who was unyielding and unimpressed until her King's second son finally convinced her that he came as her suitor on his own. To their marriage on April 26, 1923, George V "with the greatest pleasure . . . gladly...
Last week Lieut.-Col. Augustin M. Prentiss, Ph. D., of the U. S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service published a 739-page treatise entitled Chemicals in War* which was hailed by colleagues as the most comprehensive work on the subject in English. † In this book Lieut.-Col. Prentiss describes in minute detail the tactics and accessory equipment of chemical warfare, the organization of chemical troops, the chemicals used in the World War, their composition, manufacture, military value, physiological effects and probable role in future war. A chapter on the protection of civil populations is contributed by Major George...
...late years Samuel Butler has been known mainly as the author of The Way of All Flesh, one of the best of modern English novels. But that fame is posthumous : the book was not published until 1903, the year after Butler died. In his lifetime he was not widely known, even less esteemed. Last week a compatriot who seemed to believe that Butler's own generation had him just about to rights, yanked Butler unceremoniously out of the Hall of Fame, gave him a dreadful tanning. It would be an understatement to say that Malcolm Muggeridge has debunked Butler...
...success that would resound in any day. He was 50% of his paper's white staff, and since his married chief dined at home and he at the club, heard daily what his readers thought of him. The manifold duties of his job, the consciousness of being an English sahib, matured Kipling precociously. He was green, but not for long. "My Chief took me in hand and for three years or so I loathed him. He had to break me in, and I knew nothing." He lived with his family, but often had the house to himself when they...