Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the English broadcasts from Hamburg cause amusement in England; that, however, would not be startling, as the English, with the possible exception of the Chinese, are the most hypocritical and misinformed people on earth...
...Ministry announced that it has asked the French Government for the use of airports in southern France as "practice stations" for the Royal Air Force. The United Kingdom, it was said was too small for the speedy, long-range bombers Britain is building. From the bomber stations in the English midlands to the tip of Scotland and back, for instance, is a distance of only 1,000 miles. Practice or not, however, the British did not mind the conclusion that the planes would be a demonstration of Anglo-French military solidarity. Said the London Times: "There is no reason...
...Elected as its new president plump, energetic Miss Amy Henrietta Hinrichs, a New Orleans elementary-school principal. A longtime English teacher, Miss Hinrichs shudders at misplaced punctuation marks and bad grammar. Among the first to congratulate President-elect Hinrichs were Louisiana's new Governor and Mrs. Earl Long. They wired: "All Louisiana is proud of you. Come and see us when you get home...
...secondary and minor characters are as interesting if not as important as these. They shuttle in & out of a narrative brightened by anecdote, distinguished by excellent writing, weighted by a shrewd understanding of frontier social forces. The six-year work of a 37-year-old professor of English at San Diego State College, San Francisco's Literary Frontier is almost a Western counterpart of Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, looks like a promising Pulitzer Prize contender...
...never sued for libel, shot at, even taken a poke at, in a country where editors' duels were commonplace. Bierce wrote the first realistic descriptions of war, was one of the few who did not sell out in the Gilded Age. But he came home from the inevitable English visit twice the Anglophile of any of the others. He dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy. What prompted him to walk across the Mexican border into mysterious oblivion, Author Walker does not venture...