Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learning. Its students (now numbering 1,500) go to their first classes at 8 a.m., rarely knock off before 4:30 p.m. They are too busy for drinking, dancing, big-time athletics or campus chitchat (only one-third live in dormitories). Offering no snap courses, Rensselaer strips down even English and Philosophy to their utilitarian bones. English is studied by Rensselaer men primarily as a tool for writing business reports and selling their ideas. Almost their only un-antlike activity is stamp collecting, favorite Rensselaer hobby...
...four years a blunt-nosed, puffinlike paddle steamer has chuffed and tootled around the Isle of Wight, the emeraldy little English-Channel island few miles off the Hampshire coast. Proud was the paddle boat's name: Mauretania. Thus
...Post Road, Captain Plugge greatly admired the glass curb reflectors which outline the road at night. He stopped, got out, examined the reflectors minutely with a flashlight. Later he asked the Connecticut Highway Department for samples and manufacturing details, saying he intended to urge installation of the reflectors on English highways. The Connecticut officials, somewhat embarrassed, informed Captain Plugge that the Merritt Parkway reflectors were copies of those in use on the road from Evesham to Worcester, England...
Best hammock reading so far this season is The Brandons, a deft tale of pixillated English gentry. Author Thirkell (August Folly, Pomfret Towers) is the at tractive, 49-year-old granddaughter of pre-Raphaelite Painter Burne-Jones, a cousin of ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and of Rudyard Kipling, who tried out many of his Just So Stories...
...Samuel Goldwyn. Of the seven novels the Brontë sisters produced, Emily's Withering Heights has been hung up to dry as a movie, and Charlotte's Jane Eyre is a pickled classic. The darkling moodiness of these books reflects the Brontes' unnatural seclusion in an English village parsonage, where genius was forced like strawberries in a hothouse. The three girls, who were intended to be housewives, reached fame; their only brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, for whom a "pattern for genius" was traced, was a failure. The effect of his disintegration on his sisters' writings...