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Word: englishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes at a time His Majesty seemed to be uttering one enormous word. Small League fry had no idea what he was saying, but big League wigs listened through earphones to simultaneous translations of the speech, getting it by the flick of a switch in either French or English. Everyone agreed that it was a great speech-one of the noblest, most factual, irrefutable and moving ever made before the League of Nations. Yet it was totally without effect on Geneva's sleek, hard, slippery statesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Answering Ethiopia | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...night to buy the Britannia's ship's bell was told that Queen Mary is keeping that and it was not for sale. In all, the auction netted close to $5,000. The King's signal flags will be draped in the taproom of an English inn; the 102-ft. solid pine mast is to be the flagpole of a country estate; and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brinton are taking home to South Africa two feather pillows upon which once lay the heads of King George & Queen Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Tithe Bill," as it is called by 300,000 English tithe-payers. Their loudly vocal organization at once announced that they will petition King Edward to refuse his signature-a refusal which would upset the whole British theory that the King must do as Parliament votes and the Cabinet advises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...purely English problem, tithes have been collected since 786 A.D., mainly to support the Church of England, farmers originally paying a tenth of their crop to the parson. Since 1836 cash payment has been enforced, and in 1936 rural indignation is such that of 5,500 court orders obtained last year to enforce payment of tithes not one was executed. The Tithe Bill, as passed, is to end tithe payments as such by handing to the Church and certain swank "public schools" gilt-edged stock worth $350,000,000 and paying 3 % interest guaranteed by the State. In turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...photographer of noble ladies. "There is too much woodwork. . . . The main lounge sadly misses the discarded Duncan Grant mural. The effort at being modern is decidedly forced. . . . The Veranda Grill, however, is by far the prettiest room on any ship. . . . When constructing a boat, even a luxury liner, the English do not consider their women very carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: R.M.S. King George | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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