Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Examination for exemption from English A, New Lecture Hall. Open only to those who did not take the College Board Examination in English in June...
GREENGATES-R. C. Sherriff-Stokes ($2.50). Quiet English novel by the author of Journey's End, detailing the struggles of quiet Mr. Baldwin to readjust himself to life upon his retirement after 41 years in business...
PEOPLE, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!-R. H. (Bob) Davis-Stokes ($3). Travel notes of a columnist that range from brief impressions written in Mexico and South Africa to scribblings in an airplane over California, and include anecdotes about Artemus Ward, discussions of the Regency of George IV and English rule of India...
...aurora borealis," found honor in scamps, justice in thieves, energy in beggars, elegance in peasants, even benevolence in misers and grandeur in porters and sweeps. In Newport, traditional home of Tories, toasts were still drunk to the King and culture was crippled by an affected admiration for English writing. In Connecticut the dry, energetic, cranky old genius, Noah Webster, was working out his dictionary that would establish a national language as a bond of national unity. New England life might be hard and strenuous, but when intellectuals looked toward Europe they saw a continent that was exhausted by the Napoleonic...
...snowstorm that would keep celebrity-hunters away from his door. "A fathomless calm of innocent goodness brooded in the air that spread with Longfellow's poems over the world." Ten thousand copies of The Courtship of Miles Standish were sold in London in a single day, and 24 English publishers brought out Longfellow's work in competition. Simple, sweet, one of the most learned men of his time. Longfellow welcomed callers who ranged from English tourists who intruded "because there were no American ruins to visit" to such strangers as Bakunin. the Russian an archist who, invited...