Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tour which will cross Harvard's path on Friday, May 1, will cover 14 concert dates and earn close to $500,000 for the English star's production at its going rate of $33,500 per concert. The tour will finish at Cornell University on May 2, said the concert representative...
...have a lot of guys back, and they know the game really well," Co-Captain Scott Roberts said. "We finished third in the Commonwealth Cup, and had a close one-point loss to the English side (Trinity 4-3), so all signs point to a pretty strong showing this spring...
...from plate to mouth with chopsticks so that the dumpling remains intact with no loss of broth. The Westerner who can master the technique may be rewarded with a free meal, plus a tour of the kitchen, where workers grinningly pose for pictures and shyly call, "Hello," the one English word they seem to know...
...insulted when they are directed to the private rooms or segregated sections of dining rooms; they feel an attempt is being made to separate foreigners from locals. Yet there appears to be genuinely hospitable planning behind the division. In addition to being cleaner, tourist sections provide menus with English translations. Nevertheless, foreigners who insist on being seated on the lower floors will...
...Princess Lydia Vassiltchikov of St. Petersburg. The family left the Soviet Union in 1919 to live in Germany, France and Lithuania, then an independent republic. During the Depression of the 1930s, Missie and her sister Tatiana (a future Princess Metternich) sought work in Berlin. The diarist's fluent English landed her a job as a translator with the Foreign Ministry's information department. After the war, she and her husband, Architect Peter Harnden, had four children. He died in 1971 in Barcelona. Missie then moved to London, where she died of leukemia seven years later...