Word: dialectics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dublin and cracked a joke about having started out for Los Angeles, the U. S. press crowed with delight. Still crowing last week, they did more than their share in the celebrations that marked the hero's return. Star reporters wrote front-page stories in fake Irish dialect. As a million people watched him go up Broadway, Corrigan's modest self-assurance set Manhattan's press crowing louder than ever. Said F. Raymond Daniell of the Times: "A hero with his tongue in his cheek, blarney on his lips and the twinkle of the devil...
...Silesia, a larger Hungarian minority in south Slovakia and the inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia, formerly under Hungarian rule, who requested union with the new nation. Thus, Czechoslovakia today (see map) includes some 7,400,000 Czechs, 2,300,000 Slovaks and 549,000 Ruthenians, all speaking varieties of Slav dialect, 3,231,000 Germans, 692,000 Hungarians, 82,000 Poles. Added to these are 186,000 Jews, living mostly in the Carpathians...
...study of a group of unmoneyed young New Yorkers vacationing in the Berkshires were that all of the visitors at Kamp Kare-Free were unmistakably denizens of The Bronx and that the author had caught, with sympathy but cruel precision, all the semi-miraculous gradations of Bronx Jewish dialect. As presented on the screen, nothing but the name of the camp, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s aquiline profile, and a few traits recognizable only to the student of the New York melting pot, identify the characters of Having Wonderful Time. In response to the wishes of the Hays office, which...
...last fortnight, when the French Academy elected its latest "immortal," the usual storm in a teacup overflowed into the saucer. Successful candidate was 70-year-old, deaf, withered Charles Maurras, expert on Provengal dialect, author of innumerable, little-read novels, poems, philosophical and political studies. Maurras' election precipitated a scandal, not because he was a worse writer than several other "immortals," but because his election marks the most stinging slap in the face that the Republic has yet taken from French Royalists. Royalists dominate the Academy, but Maurras' Royalism is in a class by itself-it goes back...
...housed in a 16th-Century Spanish colonial building, it is made up of a group of professional schools which train Peruvian Government officials. Last week University of San Marcos began to teach a language so ancient it was new even to old San Marcos. The tongue was Quechua, the dialect of the ancient Inca tribes. From it have come such English words as quinine, cocaine. Quechua is still the language of most of the Peruvian Indians. Although it has no literature, it is written down in a few hieroglyphics on prehistoric buildings, will be taught to scholars as a means...