Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign capitals Litvinoff rode around in a shiny limousine with a tiny red flag attached, stayed at luxurious hotels, ate fine foods, drank good wines, dressed like the traditional diplomat. At home he made no such concessions to bourgeois tastes. He lived in a modest flat with his English-born wife and two handsome children. But Ivy Low Litvinoff, the Soviets' No. 1 hostess, conducted the only Moscow salon and translated novels and plays in her spare time. Fun-loving, witty, bohemian, she once engaged Novelist Theodore Dreiser in a conversation on his specialty, sexual theory, and left...
...inclined to talk just a little too much for a diplomat's wife. Result was that soon Comrade Ivy was reported as having "moved" to Sverdlovsk, in the Ural Mountains, some 900 miles east of Moscow, where she was following her big hobby of teaching "basic English"-some 850 "essential" English words-to young Russians. Mme Litvinoff was brought back to Moscow for big social functions of the Foreign Commissariat. Last autumn, however, at the usual Soviet reception to diplomats the invitations were written simply in the name of the Foreign Commissar, omitted the usual mention of Mme Litvinoff...
...hills), is no mediocrity himself. Educated at Franklin and Marshall College, New York University, Cornell, Columbia and Oxford, he was a newshawk at three Olympic Games (1904, '08, '12), wrote 22 books on prose style, advertising technique, etc. He was also for 35 years a teacher of English, most of the time in New York City high schools, from which he retired at 60 last year. Teaching, journalism and writing developed in Professor Opdycke a horror of seeing mayhem committed on the English language...
This week, in a book of 850 pages, Professor Opdycke pointed out and tried to correct the English-speaking world's most common errors. His book, less authoritative but more entertaining than famed H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage, is titled Don't Say It!† Highlights...
...three-hour test roamed the fields of science, literature, economics, English, history, in unusual fashion. Examinees were asked not to display their knowledge but to draw deductions from sets of given facts. In a test of their literary judgment, for example, they were given a poem to interpret, Wallace Stevens' Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock...