Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magicians of the U. S. are having a good laugh on their English cousins who fell for the story in the Illustrated London News which TIME reprinted...
...organization drive; no trouble is looked for. If the steel magnates throw the people into the streets, then the Pennsylvania Emergency Relief Board will find that these people are entitled to relief under the law." Straight from his steel-furnace job arrived Charles Scharbo to stumble in broken English through a Steel Workers' Declaration of Independence, paraphrasing the words of Thomas Jefferson at Philadelphia in 1776, and those of Franklin Roosevelt at Philadelphia...
...success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume recommended in a magazine suspiciously resembling Esquire and defined as an "English shooting suit." He spends a weekend at the house of his boss (Robert McWade), swigs his liquor, spanks his daughter Mary (Louise Latimer...
Four years later came the next ocean race, with the 108-ft. English schooner Cambria beating the U. S. schooner Dauntless from Ireland to Sandy Hook by only 1 hr., 43 min. Two Dauntless seamen were lost...
When Hawthorne wrote his grim Glimpses of English Poverty he started a tradition for U. S. authors of travel books which has persisted ever since. Brooding, melancholy, suspicious of the claims of foreign patriots, Hawthorne found little to cheer him except the occasional kindness shown by slum children to children still smaller. Critic Edmund Wilson was writing in that classic, if somewhat astringent, mood when last month he offered his skeptical impressions of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in Travels in Two Democracies. For most of his long (412 pages) Two Worlds, Lester Cohen also adopts...