Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constantly to "restrict the scope of free criticism and give the newspapers pause before they expose a public scandal." Including British law as now administered among these stifling forces, British Journalists' president cried: "There seems to be a tendency in courts of law, particularly on the part of English juries, to regard newspaper faults which come under their notice as calling for vindictive punishment." Conditions in Scotland are better, opined Mr. Dawson, but he raised a rallying appeal to obtain by House of Commons action greater freedom of the press in Great Britain...
...only real English dish, the people's food in the real sense of the word, is sweetmeats. Everyone in England, old or young, male or female, eats sweets. There are almost as many sweet shops as tobacconists. Sweetstuffs spoil the appetite, which is their principal object; whoever believes they taste good, like German sweets, is making a mistake. English sweets taste solely like sugar or chocolate. They can drug gnawing hunger and at the same time spoil the teeth (about 50% of the people over 40 years of age in England have false teeth...
...University of Kansas, Beta Theta Pi pledged Freshman Dan Hamilton, son of Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. Junior Peggy Anne Landon (Pi Beta Phi) signed up for English, Psychology, three courses in Modern European History...
...settlement houses is opportunity for coaching athletics, dramatics, for teaching music, English and civics to naturalization classes, for leading discussion groups, organizing boys' clubs. Last year approximately one hundred and twenty-five undergraduates were actively engaged in some form of this work...
From the pens of two English humor lie come these burlesque and some. times not unamusing remarks on business and the law. Mark Spade's little book discusses efficiently, production, distribution and allied topics under the head of running a bassoon factory in separate chapters, each (in the best and most ancient Punch tradition) with a mangled quotation from Shakspere as its introduction. A. P. Herbert has made a collection of strange and unusual law-cases involving outworn precedents and statutes, which are often ridiculously funny and usually point a good moral. Herbert's first case is the funniest...