Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English is not just good, it is good in a particular place...
...slang expressions are appropriate, they should be used without apology (that is, without quotation marks), and if they are not appropriate, they should not be used." Professor Perrin knows slang when he sees it: to park a car is general English; to park your hat is slang...
...August that sleepy little spa in upstate New York wakes up to become to U. S. racehorse people what Ascot is to the English, Longchamp to the French, Melbourne to the Australians. Saratoga can be as hot as the Sahara in August. Its hotels are great grotesque relics of the Mauve Decade with creaking elevators and hard beds. Its natives are openly out to make hay while the sun shines...
Gallant Fox is the greatest horse yet to come out of the Woodward stud, but by no means the only great one. Woodward-bred horses (up to July 1, 1939) have won 1,612 races, have earned more than $3,500,000 on U. S. and English tracks. Not all of this money went into Mr. Woodward's pocket. Horses sold as yearlings won $1,250,000 of this amount. In the past decade, three Woodward-owned horses have won the Kentucky Derby: Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), and Johnstown (1939). Five have captured the Belmont Stakes, considered by breeders...
...tracks and $91,500 abroad), world's-record winnings that year, outstripping the winnings of the fabulous stables of Lord Astor, the Earl of Derby and the Aga Khan (in that order). And in the following year, Woodward-owned horses took first place in four of the nine English stakes in which they started and earned more money ($104,365) than any U. S. stable had ever won in England in one year. Last week on the eve of the opening of Saratoga, the Belair Stud, with famed Johnstown and Fighting Fox out front, was again in the top money...