Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry the other wives could not come to England, but somebody had to be left behind to mind our home and our large family. She is buying just the jewelry and other things she is sure they will like. So far she has learned only two words of English, 'Be Careful!,' and she addresses them to her chauffeur every time she goes out. She and the Sultan thought at first that it must be fright at your terrible traffic which made English girls so pale...
...When English William MacReady and American Edwin Forrest presented rival interpretations of Macbeth in Manhattan in 1840, their partisans were lashed into such a frenzy of jealous adulation that they staged a riot in Astor Place which took 21 lives. Last week English Leslie Howard brought to Manhattan his version of Hamlet, set it up five blocks away from the theatre that had been housing English John Gielgud's Hamlet for a month (TIME, Oct 19). Not a life was lost. There was no riot. There was no rivalry. The two performances were not in the same class...
...film Romeo last spring might have guessed, the nation's No. 1 matinee idol does not have so easy a time with William Shakespeare as with Robert Sherwood Shocked and disappointed at Actor Howard's failure in the most ambitious and demanding male role on the English-speak ing stage, critics found the Howard Hamlet enervated, thoughtless, unilluminating...
...Tower might seem evidence of prosperity. Actually it is an eleemosynary institution, well-endowed by people who are interested in providing people all over the world with the Word in their native Worrora, K'Pelle, Cakchiquel, Zapotec, Mpongwe of Karamojong. The Society sells a well-bound Bible in English for 30?, will give one gratis to a needy person anywhere...
...British writers of the immediate past, the reputation of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham has dimmed more rapidly than that of any of his long-lived literary generation. Vaguely known to many as a friend of Conrad and W. H. Hudson, to a few admirers as the best writer in English on South America, his death last March evoked little more than the perfunctory tributes, compounded of respect and surprise, that seem to be reserved for literary figures who are generally thought to have been dead for years. But Cunninghame Graham was no mere Victorian period piece surviving to a cynical...