Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mumbo jumbo confusion of classics and culture is just the sort of thing which Harvard's bewhiskered sages like to pin on poor, confused President Hutchins out at Chicago. It is too bad we have to look at it here. They might give the non-Latinists diplomas written in English, or something like that...
Speakers at the annual dinner of Phi Beta Kappa on Friday evening, December 4 will be Felix Frankfurter '06, Byrne professor of Administrative Law; Howard Mumford Jones, Gurney professor of English; Charles A. Coolidge '81, fellow of the college; and Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, professor of Banking and Finance...
...such rumors that presently a large body of troops and a good-sized fleet were assembled to prevent an escape that was literally impossible. Napoleon would hide from his guards, dress his servant in his clothing, start a panic, then shake his head gleefully over the stupidity of the English. Such small victories tightened the restrictions around him. His last struggle was his five-year fight with short, redheaded, pompous, shifty-eyed Sir Hudson Lowe, which ended with Napoleon's death and left Lowe disgraced and almost...
...already feeble intelligence. When Napoleon was dying of cancer, vomiting consistently, Lowe damned his agony as more play acting, refused the medical care which Napoleon demanded. After two weeks of his last illness, when his anguish had become intense, Napoleon's main thought was to keep his English enemy from, finding out how miserable he was. And as he was virtually breathing his last, the greatest trouble-maker in history could not refrain from sowing a little posthumous dissension: he gave some valuable books to English officers, so that the tactless Lowe, under orders to confiscate all Napoleon...
JILL SOMERSET-Alec Waugh-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Rambling story of a middle-class English girl, who avoids the political conflicts that split her family, the moral chaos that engulfs her sister, keeps herself occupied raising three children and fighting off rivals for her husband...