Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English lore has it that Billy Patterson was an ingenuous boatman who earned his shillings in the vicinity of Oxford University. It is said that for years a feud had existed between the students and the river boatmen. A group of excitement craving sophomores managed to capture Patterson and bring him to "trial" before a jury of their peers. He was found "guilty" and "sentenced" to have his head amputated via the guillotine...
That mistake was to cater to Ghazi's love of speed. As a child he rode Arab racing stallions. Sent to be educated at England's Harrow, he learned how to dismantle a high-compression engine before he learned to speak good English. Far too young (12) for a British driving license, he got special permission to roar around Brooklands racing track all by himself. Back in Iraq, he bought one flashy car after another-among others a supercharged, 150-horsepower Auburn with three-inch royal crowns on its doors, a Mercedes done in phosphorescent paint. Before long...
...been caused by the announcement that the Hollywood film version of 'Wuthering Heights' is to be called Wuthering Heights. . . . The decision . . . [was] made by no less a person than Mr. Sam Goldwyn. Mr. Goldwyn is a legendary figure who has a fine autocratic way with the English language and chronology and things like that. . . . Still, the title is not everything; and its retention does not-witness among many others the conspicuous case of Bengal Lancer-at all imply that the film will be even remotely identifiable with the book...
...Bennett, it was for three decades a society paper for those expatriates of whom Henry James liked to write. It carried whole pages of yachting news, maintained its own coach to Versailles, was written in two languages, with the somewhat quaint idea that people who spoke both French and English liked to read their news the same...
...letter to Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English and C.U.U.T. president, Green wrote, "Be assured of the full support and assistance of the A.F. of L. I express the hope that you may hold a most successful and satisfactory conference...