Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtually a demand by Dictator Kama! Atatürk ("Father of the Turks") that France hand over to him from her Syrian mandate the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta, scene of recent bloody riots (TIME, Jan. 18). Sagely observed a veteran League sec- retary, "Like everyone else, except the English and the French, the Turks have now become dynamic and got the 'gimmes.' Today they want Alexandretta, tomorrow it will be the oil fields of Mosul. The prairie fire of covetousness is spreading." ¶ After furious bickering for 90 minutes between Red Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo...
...Zealand. Omens were that the whole House of Commons will loyally cooperate to avoid unpleasant subjects until after the Coronation next May 12, and the House was slated last week for such work as raising Cabinet salaries a trifle, including that of the Prime Minister. This matter intensely English Punch presented in a drawing of the Good Fairy Britannia magically raising the emolument of the independently wealthy Stanley Baldwin (see cut). Intensely Canadian Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard (which was pro-Edward and anti-Baldwin throughout the crisis) cartooned the Prime Minister with savage drollery as rolling about...
...fine pair of English racing homers, imported from the estate of an English fancier and bought by Charles Heinzman of Louisville. ¶ Best bird in the show was a Blue African Owl, weighing 1/2 lb., which received a fountain pen, a plaque and $11.50 in cash for being judged the best bird of his breed, the best old Owl and the best old African Owl. Had the Parlor Rollers in last week's show been capable of reversing their situation instead of themselves, they would doubtless have picked, as the best pigeon judge in the U. S., a precise...
...Runt is pigeon English for Ront, name of a German breed...
...Lawrence Sperry, who drowned in the English Channel in 1923. was the youngest son of famed Inventor Elmer A. Sperry (marine gyrocompass and gyroscope). A pioneer of air instruments and of blind flying, Lawrence Sperry invented such indispensable aids to flight as the gyropilot, bank & turn indicator, early efficient parachute. His family last year endowed with $10,000 an annual award for the greatest contribution to aeronautics by men under...