Word: babel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refutation of the "Golden Age" theory that the first man born into the world killed the second. After that he probably formed a club, and excluded his children, who probably formed separate clubs and excluded everybody they could think of. All of which finally led to the Tower of Babel--the paradise of clubs where nobody had to talk to anybody because nobody spoke the same language...
...financial editor of The New York Times* in all this various Babel of tongues, shows his usual good sense. He listed the leading favorable and unfavorable tendencies now discernible in American Business, and left the conclusion for the reader to form for himself. Here are his lists...
Again a serious proposal is being made to undo the mischief of the tower of Babel and supply the world with a universal language. Dean West of the Princeton Graduate School is the sponsor of the new movement, suggesting simplified Latin as an auxiliary tongue to be used by "the statesman and the traveler, the scholar, the professional man and the business...
...denies the report that France will now refuse to go to Lausanne, but affirms her intention of not acquiescing in the cancellation of concessions granted before the War. Le Midi, Paris journal, says: " It is a pity the Turks did not ask the Americans to rebuild the Tower of Babel, because the Americans are so good at skyscrapers." Pertinax in the Echo de Paris remarks that "the Chester program is only a means of getting rid of the concessions granted to the French and British." It seems that the Turks, adepts at procrastination, have been playing for time until...
Chaos piled on top of Babel...