Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since 1939, when Bromsen graduated from City College of New York and decided to specialize in Latin American history, he has traveled and lectured in nearly every one of the republics south of the border. For one period he was sponsored by the State Department as an official exchange student...
...Latin Americans Individualistic...
...Latin Americans don't like to be kicked around," said Bromsen, an open admirer of the spirit of their culture, when asked his views on their present day political status...
Since April, the--number has been played at the Latin Quarter, the Hotel Bradford, and over the air on WBZ's "Swing Serenande." In spite of these successes and the enthusiastic approval of numerous friends, Burrier-now plans to abandon hope of having the song published unless something new turns...
...typical ritual, according to William Seabrook, late, hard-drinking popularizer of the incredible: "Before an altar surmounted by a crucifix turned upside down, and on which the girl who is a virgin lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over...