Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, writing to me from Southwestern China, has in custody a white girl, unable to speak a word of English but aware that she is the daughter of an American father and a Russian mother. For nearly 20 years she has been a slave, bought and sold among various Chinese families as necessity dictated. From Mukden, her presumable birthplace, where she was first placed in an orphanage, she has been carried over North and Central China to her present haven near the Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured...
...Parliament Red Room, seated in two thrones under a huge wooden crucifix, they heard Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis read a speech of welcome in both English and French, since Canada is officially bilingual under its Constitution. When presentations began, in a room packed with Dominion officials, grand dames, colorful monsignori and sandaled monks, the first man to be presented was Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, the spiritual head of 89% of Quebec's people. The Cardinal gave the King's hand a lingering, fatherly patting...
...King lit up before a waiter could get to him with a match (the Queen does not smoke in public), and listened while Prime Minister King reminded the diners: "Today as never before, the throne has become the centre of our national life." Stammering slightly His Majesty spoke in English: . . . Deeply moved . . . moment is historic . . . anticipation too great for expression." Then, in unhesitating French, he said: "It is here today that two great races dwell happily side by side. The spirit of Quebec is a happy fusion of vigorous spirit, proudly guarded...
...years that followed, while Russian economy climbed slowly back to its pre-War normal, the Party he addressed plunged into turmoil unequaled in political history. Bolsheviks fought Whites, but they also fought Czechs, English, Germans, French, Americans, Japanese, Letts, Mongols, Poles, on 14 fronts and for more than four years-fought with inadequate arms, starvation rations, an exhausted population. They signed with Germany a treaty as punishing as the Treaty of Versailles, lost a quarter of their manufactures. Said Lenin, "I would give up Petrograd for a breathing spell of 20 days." They fought the armies of Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich...
...gold hoard (about $3,000,000,000 plus the hidden treasure of India and the mines of the Rand), will no longer add to the top-heavy U. S. gold cache ($15,867,000,000), some 60% of the world's supply. This means that English speculators will no longer be free to unload gold, which is of no present use to the U. S., in exchange for valuable U. S. securities and commodities...