Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty minutes before the curtain rose last Saturday night on his current production "Tonight at 8.30", Noel Coward, arch-wit and epigrammatist of the English and American stages, was made an honorary member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, backstage at the National Theatre in New York...
...addition to having written that painful masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams, Adams ought to be famed as the author of one of the least gallant letters a prospective bridegroom ever wrote about his future wife. On March 26, 1872, the young grandson of John Quincy Adams informed an English friend: "The young woman calls herself Marian Hooper and belongs to a sort of clan, as all Bostonians do. . . . She is certainly not handsome; nor would she be quite called plain, I think. She is twenty-eight years old. She knows her own mind uncommon well. . . . She talks garrulously...
...politics." Irked since he first spotted the Harvard University seal displayed on the Rhode Island State House library ceiling among the seals of 16 renowned printers, Gover nor Theodore Francis ("Teddy") Green, Brown & Harvard Law School graduate, had the Harvard seal removed, substituted the seal of William Caxton, first English printer...
...with a humor for which Adams did not give her credit, about their visits to great London houses, Washington scandals, political intrigues, trips to Spain, Italy, Switzerland. She was less impressed than John Adams' grandson by many of the famed figures they met. Adams, for instance, described the English poet Richard Monckton Milnes as a gifted eccentric "with a Falstaffian mask and laugh of Silenus." But Clover drew an unforgettable sketch: "As for Milnes, he shows little of the ideal poet. He is old and stout, very scrubbily dressed, his teeth vanish down his throat when he giggles, which...
Around this melancholy setup, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has written his 45th book, a dead ringer for other Wodehouse fantasies with its collection of imbecilic gentlemen, appallingly mistaken identities, mouth-filling English slang and story that sizzles and fusses as senselessly as water spilled into hot grease. Not a humorist in an ironic or satirical sense of the term, Wodehouse gets away with comic murder by a species of inspired silliness that is funny only because it is so uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star...