Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Singles championship. Britons have-H. L. Doherty in 1903, Fred Perry in 1933-34-36. So have Frenchmen-René Lacoste in 1926-27, Henri Cochet in 1928. Nearest an Australian ever came to the U. S. title was in 1933, when steady, sturdy Jack Crawford (French, English and Australian champion that year) was nosed out of a tennis grand slam in the final...
...over the return of stars from War zones, publicity releases painted a terrifying picture of others being mustered to foreign colors. Only important stars still stranded in Europe last week were Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan, who had reported for work at M. G. M.'s English studio at Denham. And only one Hollywood star actually took passage for Europe: Tyrone Power's French wife Annabella, who flew by transatlantic Clipper to bring her family back from Paris...
Sales. The immediate blackout of theatres in France and England when War was declared automatically eliminated 40% of Hollywood's box-office income. Though some English theatres in outlying areas were already being reopened under emergency regulations and more were expected to follow, still in doubt were: 1) how current Hollywood pictures must be affected by Allied censorship, and 2) how war would affect the transmission of box-office receipts, some of which had not come from England last week...
...could recognize 61,000 basic and 96,000 derivative terms in an unabridged dictionary, a total of 157,000 words; bright students could recognize 190,000. Dr. Seashore pointed out that in the days of Shakespeare (whose working vocabulary has been given by scholars as 15,000 words) the English language was much smaller than...
Died. Arthur Rackham, 72, foremost English illustrator, elfin and old-worldish as his quaint, delicately grotesque children, gnomes, hobgobliny trees beloved by readers of fairy tales throughout the English-speaking world; in Limpsfield, Surrey, England...