In the novel The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933, H. G. Wells depicted Basic English as the lingua franca of a new elite which after a prolonged struggle succeeds in uniting the world and establishing a totalitarian world government.

* 1933 – Bruce Wells, English boxer and actor ( d. 2009 )

An almost literal use of the phrase appears in popular fiction within H. G. Wells ' 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, where the protagonist finds a manuscript written in shorthand that provides a key to understanding additional scattered material that is sketched out in both longhand and on typewriter.

Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933 ), written in the form of a history book published in the year 2106 and — in the manner of a real history book — containing numerous footnotes and references to the works of ( mostly fictitious ) prominent historians of the 20th and 21st centuries.

For example, in 1933 H. G. Wells postulated in The Shape of Things to Come a Second World War in which Nazi Germany and Poland are evenly matched militarily, fighting an indecisive war over ten years ; and Poul Anderson's early 1950s Psychotechnic League depicted a world undergoing a devastating nuclear war in 1958, yet by the early 21st century managing not only to rebuild the ruins on Earth but also engage in extensive space colonization of the Moon and several planets.

* The ballet Pomona, with music by Constant Lambert, choreography by Frederick Ashton and scenery and costumes by Vanessa Bell, first performed by the Vic-Wells Ballet at the Sadler's Wells Theatre on 17 January 1933.

The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come and his 1931 non-fiction work, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind.

Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933 ), which was written in the form of a history book published in the year 2106 and-in the manner of a real history book-containing numerous footnotes and references to the works of ( mostly fictitious ) prominent historians of the 20th and 21st centuries.

H. G. Wells, in his 1933 future history " The Shape of Things to Come ", predicted that in the Twenty-First Century English and Spanish would " become interchangeable languages ".

Pinafore ( Captain Corcoran ); 1931 Gondoliers ( Duke of Plaza-Toro ); 1931 Pirates ( Major-General ); 1931 Ruddigore ( Robin Oakapple ) 1931 Yeomen ( Jack Point ); 1932 Princess Ida ( Florian ); and 1933 The Sorcerer ( John Wellington Wells ).

The Wells of Beersheba ( 1933 ) by Frank Dalby Davison

At Menlo, Shane became friends with Nick Reynolds ( Nicholas Wells Reynolds, July 27, 1933 – October 1, 2008 ), a native San Diegan with an extensive knowledge of folk and calypso songs — in part from his guitar-playing father, a career officer in the U. S. Navy.

The play's popularity has waned in the mid twentieth century, although Charles Laughton played Henry at Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1933 and Margaret Webster directed it as the inaugural production of her American Repertory Company on Broadway in 1946 with Walter Hampden as Wolsey and Eva Le Gallienne as Katherine.

Wells – 1933 – 1936

In 1931, Wells headed the research operations of the official Study Commission for Indiana Financial Institutions, which recommended far-reaching changes to Indiana's financial regulatory structures, many of which were adopted by the General Assembly in 1933.

In 1933, Wells took leave from his recent appointment as an assistant professor at Indiana University to work as supervisor of the Division of Banks and Trust Companies and the Division of Research and Statistics in the newly created Indiana Department of Financial Institutions, an agency with origins in the Study Commission's recommendations.

He also has rebuilt about a dozen cars, including a 1946 Chevy he sold to former Devil Rays pitcher Bobby Witt and a 1933 Ford two-door sedan for the left-handed David Wells.

The book is instrumental in Dr Philip Raven's production of his future history as ' edited ' by H G Wells in his 1933 work The Shape of Things to Come.

H. G. Wells in The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933, predicted a Second World War in which Britain would not participate but would vainly try to effect a peaceful compromise.

The concept that control of air traffic would lead to world government reappears in the works of H. G. Wells, most notably his 1933 book The Shape of Things to Come and its 1936 film adaptation Things to Come.

* Isokon Book Units ( designed by Wells Coates, 1933 )

* Desk made from Isokon Book Units ( designed by Wells Coates, 1933 )

She is said to have had seven husbands, including theatrical producer Maurice ( divorced ); Thomas Wells ( married October 1926-his death ); South American millionaire Jaime De Garson ( divorced 1931 ); boxer / actor Max Baer ( married July 8, 1931-divorced 1933 ); portrait painter Tino Costa ( married 1936-annulled 1937 ); and Russell Lawson.

David Gauld ( 1865 – 1936 ), William Kennedy ( 1859 – 1918 ), John Lavery ( 1856 – 1941 ), Stuart Park ( 1862 – 1933 ), William Wells ( 1872 – 1923 ), David Young Cameron ( 1865 – 1945 ), Alexander Roche ( 1861 – 1923 ), Arthur Melville ( 1855 – 1904 ), Thomas Corsan Morton ( 1859-1928 ), James Nairn ( 1859 – 1904 ), George Pirie ( 1863-1946 ) and John Quinton Pringle ( 1864 – 1925 ).

The existence of the antiproton with − 1 electric charge, opposite to the + 1 electric charge of the proton, was predicted by Paul Dirac in his 1933 Nobel Prize lecture.

While at Eton, Neave composed a prize-winning essay in 1933 that examined the likely consequences of Adolf Hitler's rise to supreme power in Germany, and Neave predicted then that another widespread war would break out in Europe in the near future.

In 1933 Linus Pauling predicted that the heavier noble gases would be able to form compounds with fluorine and oxygen.

As early as 1933, the drama critic of the Evening News called him ‘ the most indubitable of matinée idols ’ and predicted that he might outstrip talented contemporaries such as Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud.

The reference in the Fourth stanza to enemy cannons " hidden in yellow sand " is likely to have been added under the influence of Rommel's " Afrika Korps " campaign in North Africa, as in 1933 it could hardly have been predicted that German tanks would be involved in fighting in a desert environment.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war ( In the Days of the Comet ( 1906 )), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, Things to Come ).

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

Things went from bad to worse when the Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane of 1933, known as the August storm, caused extensive damage in town where damages were estimated at $ 75, 000.

In the 1930s there were several big budget science fiction films, notably Just Imagine ( 1930 ), King Kong ( 1933 ), Things to Come ( 1936 ) and Lost Horizon ( 1937 ).

He wrote over one thousand scripts for the Cecil and Sally radio program ( originally titled " The Funniest Things ") broadcast between 1928 and 1933.

* Things I Have Seen ( 1933 )

The company's productions included The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ), Things to Come ( 1936 ), Rembrandt ( 1936 ), The Four Feathers ( 1939 ), The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ).

*( 1933 ) They All Come to Moscow

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

His British films included Yes, Mr Brown ( 1933 ), Good Night, Vienna ( 1932 ), That's a Good Girl ( 1933 ), Brewster's Millions ( 1935 ), Come Out of the Pantry ( 1935 ), When Knights Were Bold ( 1936 ), This'll Make You Whistle ( 1936 ), Smash and Grab ( 1937 ), The Sky's the Limit ( 1938 ), Break the News ( 1938 ), The Gang's All Here ( 1939 ), The Middle Watch ( 1940 ), Bulldog Sees It Through ( 1940 ), As Long as They're Happy ( 1955 ), and Josephine and Men ( 1955 ).

From 1933 he devoted all of his time to writing, completing five more novels: The Second Prince ( 1935 ), All Brides Are Beautiful ( 1936 ) ( also produced as a 1946 film called From This Day Forward ), Out of This Furnace ( 1941 ), Till I Come Back to You ( 1943 ) ( which had a life on Broadway as The World Is Full of Girls ), and There Comes a Time ( 1946 ).

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Great Scott ( 1929 ), Give Us This Day ( 1933 ), and In Time to Come ( 1941 ) were produced on Broadway.