Word: vernacular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form which fail to describe carefully the hero's "awakening" (first woman) are now so rare that one in which this event does not even occur can be classed as a literary phenomenon. Albert Grope is a phenomenal book in other respects also. It deals in the mood and vernacular of Victorian fiction, with the humble upbringing and start in the world of a commercially enterprising but socially timid late-century Cockney Londoner. The hero, speaking in the first person, describes events preceding by 20 years his recording of them. But it takes a typically Victorian literary license to account...
...batch of Chinese government students in the U. S., among them young Tang Shao-yi. In 1912 Tang became First Premier of the Chinese Republic. Last week venerable Tang arrived in Canton, lent by his presence an air of respectability to the successful revolution there (TIME, May 11). Canton vernacular papers told their readers: "Tang Shao-yi is a personal friend of Hoover Herbert,* President of the United States of America. . . . Their friendship began 30 years ago when Hoover Herbert was a young engineer in China...
...occasion suffer from a lack of inspiration. Their best efforts were expended in the first five minutes when they gave a natural portrayal of two people getting up in the morning. Once out of bed they seemed to lose interest in the proceedings. And to lapse reluctantly into the vernacular, the play simply didn't "click...
...exercises in the chapel were for the most part in Latin. My father addressed the President in that language . . . Then we had some more Latin from young Mr. Francis Bowen, of the senior class. . . . There were also a few modest words presumably in the vernacular, though scarcely audible, from the recipient (Jackson) of the doctorate...
...Turning his jewel box upside down, generous Henry counted out 800 pearls from the dwindling hoard. By a trusty messenger the Imperial pearls and Imperial sables were despatched "with Mr. Henry P'u-yi's compliments" to the chief Peking agency of native famine relief, the great vernacular newspaper He Ta Kung...