Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ronald Lindsay, they sent 57-year-old Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, owner of 28,000 English and Scottish acres, onetime journalist, Wartime secretary to David Lloyd George. He is an ambitious man who long ago "arrived" in British affairs by hard work. Accused (he denies it) of being a member of the famed, talkative Cliveden Set and of having helped oust Anthony Eden, he favored appeasement until he lost belief in Adolf Hitler's humanity. Then he favored a British military alliance with Russia. Now he may confidently be counted in Britain's war-if-necessary...
...office-icy-eyed portraits of former Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone the men in London who watch the English end of the tripartite monetary agreement. Mr. Hanes had $2,000,000,000 worth of stabilization funds to repulse panicky raids on the franc, pound, dollar...
Many a time Señor Espil trotted into Cordell Hull's paper-cluttered office. But more often he went to the cool gardens of Oxon Hill, Maryland, where poised Mr. Welles lives like an English squire. There they talked ways & means of climbing hurdles One to Five, especially how to convince Espil's boss, Minister Lamas, that with the U. S., not Great Britain, lay Argentina's future...
...Tuesday, when Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop took off for Moscow, and on Wednesday, when he signed the Pact, all Germany was jubilant. The press gloated, called the Axis "blockade proof," chided the English & French for "groveling before the Kremlin." The radio gloated some more. By nightfall Berlin's streets were as gay as any holiday. Cafes along Kurfurstendamm overflowed. It was good sport to salute friends with "Heil Stalin," and when some young blades rang the doorbell of the Soviet Embassy, shouted "Heil Moscow" and ran away, that was very funny too. In a midtown Bierstube, a band...
...Preliminary meeting of English A, New Lecture Hall...