Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine o'clock eight more squadrons of medium Hampden and Battle bombers left England to touch the French coast near the mouth of the Somme, pass west of Paris. At eleven two more squadrons of heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers had passed the steel mills of Bordeaux, toward which other squadrons were speeding; medium bombers had circled Orleans, passed Le Mans on their way back to Cherbourg and home. At 2 p. m. the first squadrons of Blenheims and Wellingtons were...
...time of the famed March on Rome in 1922 (when Benito took a sleeper to Rome, however) she had grown into an impetuous, violent tempered, but intelligent and alert girl of twelve. So undisciplined was the child at one time that Il Duce gave her a strict English governess by the name of Gibson -the same name as that of an Irishwoman who had tried to pot Il Duce with a revolver in 1926. Sent from one school to another, Edda finally acquired a social and cultural veneer, an expertness on piano and violin, a fluency in French...
...East Asia." However the conference ends, Tokyo newspapers rejoiced over a preliminary Japanese victory-the "official" language of the conference is to be Japanese. When Sir Robert and Minister Arita met, however, they dispensed with interpreters (Sir Robert does not speak Japanese) and conducted the first skirmish in English, which Mr. Arita speaks fluently...
...Actor Louis Hayward, who has made several false starts in cinema, his spirited attack on what the movie industry still calls a Douglas Fairbanks role may at last mean a place above the Hollywood salt. Born 30 years ago in Johannesburg, son of an English banker, Actor Hayward made his London stage name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year...
Died. James Weber Linn, 63, "most popular professor" at the University of Chicago where he taught English for 40 years, Illinois State Legislator, nephew and biographer of Jane Addams; at Lakeside, Mich...