Word: continental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A student of regional U.S. speaking habits, McDavid himself comes from South Carolina, and he has a purpose in all this random conversation. He is helping gather material for the multi-volume Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada which Philologist Hans Kurath is directing from the University of...
Joe got his son to type a hunt & peck letter to ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, telling him about the quarry and his relatives. Joe proposed to send U.S. equipment to the quarry, boost its output and sell stone in the U.S. as well as Italy. Last week, after eleven months of...
Into the Parlor. Last year Olsen & Johnson invaded Europe to satisfy a lifetime ambition to play in Scandinavia (Olsen is of Norwegian descent; Johnson, Swedish). They were so successful in London that the show never got to the Continent. One Hellzapoppin road company is still in England; another is touring...
...Continentals call this tendency "dirigisme" it is increasingly unpopular on the Continent. The French, Italians and even the sober Belgians consider the British taste for controlled austerity to be somewhat perverted-what might be called economic masochism, or love of suffering. The British look down their noses and reply that their controls are merely good housekeeping...
The Mirror turned its front page right-side-up, dropped most of its color, shortened and sharpened its stories, and started screaming like a tabloid. Obedient to Publisher Pinkley's order to "local 'em to death," it began to play up circulation-catching sex, crime and crusading stories...