Word: esperanto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whatever it is, the Youth Congress might have been especially designed to torment Martin Dies. It is a conglomeration of 63 national organizations; claims 4,600,000 members, has an organizational structure as complicated as an Insull holding company. Some affiliated organizations: Esperanto Association of North America, American League for Peace and Democracy, Association of Lithuanian Workers...
Compounded of puns, disjointed syllables, half-words, it is closest to English, but Erse, Latin, Greek, Dutch, French, Sanskrit, even Esperanto appear, usually distorted to suggest both an alien and an English notion. The ablest punster in seven languages, Joyce sometimes combines puns and snatches of songs. Example: "ginabawdy meadabawdy!" (from a passage dealing with Earwicker's dream of a night out). Using a favorite device, he suggests that Anna Livia is the River Liffey by slyly punning on the names of other rivers: "he gave her the tigris eye," "rubbing the mouldaw stains," "And the dneepers...
...eggs. Hollywood not only has no courage but is not concerned with having any. Despite the fact that it will not be shown in Italy anyway, Idiot's Delight goes so far out of its way to avoid insulting Italians as to have its military characters talk Esperanto. The picture indicts nothing except war in general, and does even this halfheartedly. This caution, however, is not due primarily to Hollywood's reluctance to offend, but merely to its intense eagerness to make profits. Author Sherwood, as familiar with the screen as he is with the stage, was well...
...recent years Charles Edgar Duryea, as a Philadelphia consulting engineer, lived in simple gentility in the Tioga section, writing letters in simplified spelling, championing prohibition, loans at 1% to make America the world's workshop, Esperanto, anti-Darwinism, community ownership of natural wealth, and a slipknot of his own devising. Philadelphia reporters liked to drop in and chat with him on his birthdays, listen to him play his ancient reed organ. They went around to the little house in North 18th Street one day last week, but not to get a birthday story. They came to ask about...
...Ogden '41, of the John Reed Society, Robert E. Lane '39, of the Student Union; Sam L. Cole '40, of the Dramatic Club; Thomas A. Goldman '39, of the Esperanto Club; William L. Calfee, of the Lampoon; Sherman Gifford '39, of the Monthly; George S. Viereck, Jr. '39, of the Guardian; Samuel N. Hinckley '39, of the Advocate; and Cleveland Amory '39, of the CRIMSON...