Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four high-school teachers (Mabel Goddard, Louise Schafer Camp, Eva Hanks Lycan and Helen Louise Cohen Stockwell) published four graduated textbooks called American English.* Main thesis of Mesdames Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell is that there are three kinds of American English, each acceptable in its place. They illustrated this concept by the following variations on the theme, "Mother is not feeling well today": 1) dignified American English for great occasions: "Mother is ill and has retired"; 2) sack-suit American English: "Mother is sick and has gone to bed"; 3) football-field American English: "Mother is on the blink...
...Vancouver, B. C. debarked chubby Orphan Helen Priscilla Stam, aged 5, on her first trip out of China. When she was three months old, Chinese bandits broadsworded off the heads of her missionary parents, would have done the same to Helen had a Chinese Christian not offered (acceptably) his life for hers...
...Pretty Helen Crlenkovich, 18, of San Francisco: the national outdoor three-metre springboard diving championship; nosing out (135.89 points to 133.97 points) 16-year-old, three-time Champion Marjorie Gestring, whom she also dethroned as national indoor queen last winter; in the Birdland Pool, Des Moines, Iowa...
...CONCERNED NOTIFIED-Helen Reilly-Crime Club ($2). Inspector McKee of Manhattan's Homicide Squad links a dead woman in a hotel with two well-to-do corpses in an old house in Greenwich Village. Merits: good characters, fast action, nocturnal chills. Fault: complicated family relationship...
...Omaha, Neb. a sign painter named Oscar ("Wiggie") Wiggenjost, whose wife Helen had flounced out of the house with the haughties, hired Skywriter Joe Jacobson to try to get her back. Across seven miles of sky, in letters half a mile high, Airman Jacobson skywrote: "Wiggie loves Helen." The unfeeling wind smudged the message into illegibility, and Wife Helen kept...