Word: blanco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Litterateurs shrieked with dismay when President Roosevelt tried to force simplified spelling down the throat of the Congressional Record. Esperanto was tortured to death with fiendish glee by the barbed criticisms of philologists. And yet Mr. Eurique Blanco, writing in the international Book Review, has tempted the lightning of such a champion as Mr. Mencken by declaring that English is not "easy to learn" and that before if can become a world language its innate perversity must be destroyed...
Senor Enrico Blanco, of the University of Wisconsin, takes, up the cudgels in behalf of Spain. Not all inhabitants of the country of Cervantes and Charles the Fifth are desperate villains with knives under their cloaks, and "Carramba!" in their teeth. Furthermore, there are Spaniards who are not swarthy, and a great many who are not pirates...
Altogether, Mr. Glynn-Ward and Senor Blanco make out a strong case against the commonplace stereotypes of modern romances. If some patriot American critic would only file a protest against the poor-but-honest serving girl and the white-haired general of industry who invariably appears in the middle of the morning in full dress, the indictment would be complete...
American Magazine, American Traveller's Gazette, Annalist, Asia, Blanco Y Negro, Canadian Magazine, Century Magazine, Classic (Shadowland), Country Life (England), Country Life in America, Dial, Freeman, Harper's, Harvard Graduates Magazine, Illustrated London News, L' Illustration, Independent, Insurance World, International Studio, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Life, Literary Digest, London Mercury, Nation, National Geographic Magazine, New Republic, Outing, Outlook, Overland Monthly, Punch, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Reviews, Saturday Evening Post, Scientific American Monthly, Scribners, Theatre, Vanity Fair, World's Work, Yale Alumni Weekly, Yale Review...
...Blanco y Negro...