Word: whan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controlling sense of style in the acting-a common fault in Hollywood's period pieces. Actor Boyer, for instance, falls somewhere between Paris and Hollywood, but wherever it is, it is not New Orleans. And he seems understandably embarrassed by many of his lines-"Death! Ha! Whan eet come, speet een eets eye." Actress Bloom intrudes a British note, and Actor Heston, as a sweet-talking, milk-sopping Old Hickory with a phony Tennessee accent, makes just about the silliest of the screen's counterfeits of the face on the $20 bill. And Actor Brynner does little more...
From my hazy memory of school, my little old knotty skull was so busy entertaining cube roots of things and the preterit of foreign languages and that old "whan that Aprile" business from Chaucer that I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't have any opinions. Robert Ruark, New York World Telegram and Sun, November...
...economy is plagued by runaway inflation. Private credit is rigidly controlled, but the government keeps the printing presses going to supply food and pay to its army of 19 divisions. In six months the money supply has jumped 60%, from 10 to 16 billion whan.*Though the whan is pegged officially at 60 to $1, the going black-market rate is 260 to $1. Retail prices are up 7.200% from 1947 (though the rate of rise has slowed to 2% a month); wholesale prices, under government control...
...curb inflation last February, the government called in the won, replaced it with the whan at the rate of one whan...
...years) is the best "translation" of Chaucer to be had. It owes much of its bubbling fluency to Coghill's boldness in sacrificing words and word orders to rhythm and clarity. This is evident in the famed opening lines (usually as much as anyone remembers of the Tales)-Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote-which Coghill deftly turns thus: When the sweet showers, of April fall and shoot/ Down through the drought of March to pierce the root...