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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lollipop Chaucer | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

Rate of Exchange. Near Seoul, Korea, the U.S. Army's 568th Ordnance Co. decided to cancel a $580 contract with the Sam Whan construction firm to repair its boiler, because its own Korean carpenter had already done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...gude frash harring is a varry gude thing, espashally whan she's frash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prince of Wales & Bloaters | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Hape!! Yi yi -geeve a look de book, momma- look de peecture!! Is a hape, no?? So I say, 'Baby, dollink, wot's dees??' So he saz me, 'A hape!' Look it stends: 'Playe stends for hape Wot he leeves in de trizz; Whan he nidds a gless meelfc He'll a cuccanot squizze!!'" All Milt Gross's humor is like this. There is no satire, no attempt at subtlety, beyond the infinite subtlety of the extraordinary dialect in which his characters cavort. They-Mr. & Mrs. Feitlebaum, Looy, Isidore, Nize Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dunt Esk Anodder | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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