Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Man does not derive from its limited fauna but from the Latin name Mona. Its people are tall, Celtic, peaceable. In their looks there is none of that impish cruelty which is supposed by many to account for the condition of their cats. One of these last, a baleful creature with listless and ungraceful motions, attended the congress of the Manxmen, in the capacity of mascot...
Foreign Policy: Nominee Smith accused the Coolidge Administration of disrespectful meddling and Imperialism in Latin America. He espoused the Monroe Doctrine. He eschewed "entangling alliances." He blamed the Republicans for "nothing effective" in the way of international disarmament since the naval tonnage agreements of 1921. (Nominee, Hoover had mentioned foreign policy only in connection with its "one primary object," peace...
...Prof. Hatton's round table was only one of many. Dizzy was the rate with which all U. S. (and some foreign) affairs spun metaphorically round and round. Thus, for example, Prof. Latane is an expert on Latin America. He knows that since 1900, U. S. investments in the Caribbean, Central and South America have increased from the nest egg of $300,000,000 to the imperial fortune of $5,000,000,000. As an historian he stated his fear that so much money would lead the U. S. into imperialism of the bad sort, and concluded...
...boorish society of the pot-house-backgammon and trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with the intellectuals of Florence. Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses), his own broad humor (Mandragola...
Previously, for 23 years, Chile and Peru had been negotiating acrimoniously over the disputed provinces of Tacna and Arica (TIME, March 7). They may now resume these negotiations, thus relieving the U. S. of much Latin American blame, which was incurred when the President of the U. S. did not succeed in settling the Tacna-Arica question, after accepting the joint invitations of Chile and Peru to act as arbiter (TIME, March...