Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burning word, the President had not been daring at all, but unforgivably commonplace and unimaginative. In The American Language, H. L. Mencken complained: "Our maid-of-all-work in [the profanity] department is son-of-a-bitch, which seems as pale and ineffectual to a Slav or a Latin as fudge does to us. There is simply no lift in it, no shock, no sis-boom-ah . . . Put the second person pronoun and the adjective old in front of it and scarcely enough bounce is left in it to shake up an archdeacon. Worse, it is frequently toned down...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick, whose whirlwind trip through Latin America has already been marked by banquets and speeches in half a dozen countries (and by a small fire in his private plane as it flew over Colombia), reached a new high in Argentina. He and his wife were honor guests at a four-hour luncheon at the Buenos Aires country place of Juan Perón. After lunch, Juan gave Bertie a medal, a diploma and a well-phrased pat on the back: "This medal ... is presented to honest men. I award...
...philosopher, a scientist, and a theologian discussed "Values for Modern Man" last night before nearly 1400 persons at the fifth session of a current Law School Forum series in the Cambridge High and Latin School Auditorium...
...Philosophy, Emeritus, and Perey W. Bridgeman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, will conclude the Law School Forum's five-day symposium on "Values for Modern Man" with a general discussion tonight. The final talk will get under way at 8 p.m. in the Cambridge High and Latin School auditorium...
...English Dept. does not discourage concentrators; it only makes those working for Honors work a little more. (Most of them have probably all had at least two years of Latin in prop school.) It is hardly worth arguing that a course saved by elimination of the classics requirement would enable an English, as all fields have certain prerequisites. Do you expect some English concentrator to study an economic, field, for example, without even having taken the basic course in economics? John E. Rexine...