Word: colombianizing
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With his wife, two governesses, three military aides and six children, grizzled General Jorge Martinez, commander-in-chief of the Colombian Army, arrived in Manhattan. He set out to see some friends, was stopped by an elevator strike. He started to go shopping, was drenched in a downpour. He went to the theatre, lost two of his offspring. Sputtering General Martinez ordered nine rooms on a transatlantic liner, sailed for Europe in disgust...
...years ago the Colombian Navy splashed into the news by racing 5,000 mi. around South America and up the Amazon River to the scene of a potential war with Peru. Peru has a sad navy: two old cruisers, three destroyers, four submarines. Colombia has one even sadder: six little gunboats, the biggest under 700 tons, and some coast guard patrol boats.* Luckily the League of Nations settled the "war" in Colombia's favor, but the worried Colombians have lately been picking up bargains in second-hand war boats. Thus a U. S. steamer named the Commercial Traveler...
Seaman Robert Green of New York City had won his $1,000 claim before a U. S. District Court. The judge deputed Deputy Marshal Harry Baker to serve the papers on the Cacuta's captain. The marshal found the Colombian captain on the bridge one day last week. He turned out to be one J. R. Hodges, late of Mobile, Ala. An alert newshawk of the Philadelphia Record was on hand to record in dialect the conversation...
Captain: Pahdon me, but this heah is a Colombian wah ship...
Thereafter Flagship Captain Hodges did not dare to move his padlocked ship for fear of starting international complications and losing his lucrative job as a high-ranking officer in the Colombian Navy...