Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony Gallicisms as chic, enceinte and demimonde. Some foreign terms are handy: "Hors d'oeuvre is a useful word and not difficult to say, but it looks conspicuously un-English. If menu makers would spell it orderve, we could all be happy with...
...Baptist groups which do not believe in foreign missions and "human institutions" such as Sunday school do not belong to the Alliance. Stay-at-homes-unless they wished to pay 25? to sit in the audience at night meetings of the congress-were Foot-Washing, Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit, Hard Shell Primitive, Six-Principle, Seventh Day, Free Will, Streaked Head Baptists. All these sects are small, quirky...
...Japan, foreign news services frequently depend on native translating bureaus for their news from Japanese papers. Last week the United Press got this translation of an editorial in a Tokyo paper...
...want to stir up any bitter feeling about foreign nations lying to the west of us, but I do say that I would regret to see further aggression on the part of a nation all of whose admirals and generals seem to look precisely like Roy W. Howard...
Bilbo's first autobiographical tome, Carrying a Gun for Al Capone, had England by the ears eight years ago, ran into 17 editions, was translated into nine foreign languages. Five years and one book (I Can't Escape Adventure) later, Bilbo opened a highly successful night spot in London's arty Chelsea, where he assiduously cultivated those in the know. Five months ago he started painting, now does nothing else, often works in his studio for 20 hours at a stretch. It wouldn't surprise him in the least if his fellow-refugee and longtime friend...