Word: babel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government. Though suffering from only the lightest attack of influenza, the wise old "Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics - no one seemed to care much whether or not the Government went down, but it didn...
...reverted to the occupation of New Bedford's colonial days. Borrowing or building a boat, he has gone fishing, bringing in a catch he could market in the city. Gravely, the strikers' womenfolk gather in the streets to discuss the day's events in a babel of tongues. Never has the U. S. seen such a rebellion...
These youthful delegates have something of an advantage over the League itself. At Genoa the babel of languages must be transferred to one tongue; at Amherst, though many representatives will be bona fide Europeans or Asiatics, no reading knowledge of foreign languages is required--provided the pleasant possibilities of education have been realized. And therein lies an analogy, or at worst a similarity. If education makes it possible for these foreign students to speak comprehensible English, it has one point in favor of its finally producing the mutual understanding among peoples, so long desired, so slow to come. Not that...
...Back to Babel. By far the most important topic of the convention was the withdrawal of the A. F. of L.'s Building Trades Department from the National Board of Jurisdictional Awards. The latter, now collapsed, was a board composed of civil engineers, architects, contractors and other employers, and of workers in the building trades, which was formed to settle disputes as to what workmen should do what sorts of work and how. Labor accused the other members of the Board of failing to carry out the Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor...
Edward Murray Bassett: The great authority on zoning, who in a modern Babel has set a limit on the height of buildings...