Word: english
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while German U-boats were ranging the Atlantic traffic lanes, a gaunt and hawklike Austrian arrived in Manhattan. He spoke no English, but his first act was to make a translated statement to the press: "I hope to please the American public and if I do I shall become a citizen of your country. I do not wish to be known as a Wagnerian conductor, as I love the operas of all nations." Month later, stepping into the Metropolitan's orchestra pit recently vacated by Arturo Toscanini and his bald, black-bearded co-worker Alfred Hertz, Artur Bodanzky shook...
...Malley is a fruity, beet-red, Lancashire-born Irishman who was introduced to the U. S. four years ago with Templeton and Jack Hylton's orchestra. His specialty: English North Country songs, the phlegmatic Lancashire monologues that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion...
...week's end Dr. Greene had encouraging answers from 20 broadcasters, was already girding for another scrap-against double talk (idioglossia).* Says he: "If a comedian has to try to put his stuff over by making a fool of our good English, then let him not stay in the business...
Unlike Germans, Britons may listen to any foreign broadcast they can tune in. To reach British ears with the Nazi side of World War II, Germany broadcasts in English, sometimes as much as eight hours a day. Most familiar voice from Germany, to most British listeners, speaks daily from Zeesen in exaggerated pip-pip English, caning British high-ups and war policies; deploring the blockade with: "Rehly, you British, it isn't manlah!" Some listeners think this hyper-Oxonian voice is Traitor Norman Baillie-Stewart's, some think it is Dr. Helmut Hoffman's, who once lectured...
...schoolroom, and put Mercurochrome on Gaylyn's cut finger, Miss Campbell found the going harder than in the morning. When Johnny, during a history lesson, remarked: "It sounds kind of goofy," Miss Campbell was shocked, said severely: "I don't think that's very good English." During a sluggish geography lesson that followed, Miss Campbell lost her temper, pointed her pencil, said grimly: "Listen, Doris, you go back and read slower and don't make any mistakes. You're getting to be a terrible thinker...