Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oratory is unimpassioned, but his command of the President's English is beautiful to behold...
Still on the Library shelves, however, are a few of the 8,000 books whose plates read: "Presented to the City of Chicago towards the formation of a free library after the Great Fire of 1871, as a mark of English sympathy by Her Majesty the Queen, Victoria." The Queen, helped by Tennyson, Carlyle, Disraeli and Gladstone, sent the books under the impression that the Fire had destroyed Chicago's public library. Actually, in 1871 there was no city library to burn but the citizens were shamed into founding one, in an old water tank which had survived...
...Tarzan and Jane, move in with them in their treetop "town house," whose butler is Cheetah, the chimpanzee. Cheetah understands Jane's words far better than does Tarzan. Though they have been living together for four years, Tarzan has been able to learn, only a few phrases of English. As a yodeler he is in better voice than ever. Inevitable develop ments include a fight with a crocodile, underwater swimming, treetop acrobatics. Eventually Tarzan is trapped by villainous Captain Fry. He escapes in time to rescue the party from the fiendish Ganeloni tribe, achieves sadistic revenge on Captain...
Definitely feeble nowadays, Pope Pius XI has lately been variously described as suffering from dropsy, uremia, Bright's disease, asthma, poor metabolism, heaviness of limb. Last week a prelate in private audience with the Holy Father made reference to newspaper accounts of his health. As put into English by a United Pressman in Rome, the Pope's sporting reply...
...exhaustive record of the Emperor's last six years, St. Helena is a superb piece of composition that remains interesting through its 500 pages. Beginning with Waterloo, it clips along like a good melodrama through Napoleon's flight, his success in winning the friendship of one antagonistic English jailer after another. A strange bunch of gifted eccentrics followed him. There was tiny, weasel-faced, unctuous Emmanuel de Las Cases, who was 49, three years older than Napoleon, and who followed Napoleon because he wanted to win immortality by being his Boswell. He was so open in his admiration...