Word: swahili
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...challenged and, indeed, could here be extended to "the funniest woman in the world" but for this writer's early memory of a great uncle who, after a few drinks, was given to recalling in glorious terms a little entertainer in Kenya who was once very funny with her Swahili monologues. In case this worthy woman is still alive, and out of respect to my uncle, I'll only go so far as to say that there is no man or woman on the English-speaking stage (movies and radio included, of course) as consistently funny as Beatrice Lillie...
...long before Alexander began to look afield. The Macmillans set up branch offices in Canada, Australia, India, New York (today the independently managed U.S. house alone has a yearly turnover of ten million dollars). Soon Macmillan's educational series served the world; its school "readers" appeared in Afrikaans, Swahili, Arabic, Anglo-Chinese and various Indian dialects. Massive works such as Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians appeared, as well as such famed series as the English Men of Letters and Great English Churchmen. Two magazines were founded, Macmillan's and Nature, and to this day Nature...
This harmless charade has a certain honky-tonk charm for which those who liked Damon Runyon's Butch Minds the Baby will be warmly prepared. The talk is the patented Runyon brand of Times Square Swahili, in which a worn-out race horse is "practically mucilage," and marriage is described as "one room, two chins, three kids." There is the usual Runyon corps de ballet of ham-hearted grifters, heisters and passers, played by a friendly crowd of veterans from Hollywood (Eugene Pallette, Louise Beavers) and Broadway (Sam Levene, Millard Mitchell). Carefully solemn Henry Fonda has the dignity...
Your story, "No Spik Swahili" (TIME, May 4), bears the statement, "to the best of the Government's knowledge, the U.S. has no one at all who can teach such essential linguistic tools of war as Burmese, Swahili, Malagasy." This the reporter should have qualified still further. For at least the State Department must know of the passage to and from "Swahililand" (East Africa) of scores of missionaries who have mastered the tongue of this section, a language spoken also by the seafaring people of the ports of Egypt and the Near East...
...Holy Ghost Fathers, for example, 26 young priests are at their mission posts in Tanganyika Territory today and eleven more, who worked in this section earlier, are in the U.S. Many of the latter could qualify as teachers of Swahili (the language is more commonly called Kiswahili), for they learned the tongue not only through years of actual practice, but also in the Mission Seminary of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost in Norwalk, Conn. Classes in Kiswahili are conducted there by Rev. Francis J. Fitzgerald, C.S.Sp. who spent twelve years (1927-39) in Bagamoya, East Africa...