Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London), where they settled down fairly permanently in 1914 when Belgium engaged the Hoover genius to keep 10,000,000 warhemmed people fed for four years. Intellectual, she helped her husband in his post-War diversion of translating Georg Bauer's De Re Metallica from cryptic 16th Century Latin into quaint but useful English...
Twenty years ago, Pope Pius X commissioned a scholar to head a research into the text of the Vulgate, the 1500-year-old standard Latin version of the Bible. The scholar whom he chose for this task was his Eminence Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. Since the Vulgate is the universal biblical authority for all Roman Catholics and since modern discoveries have posed questions against the validity of its sacred interpretations, Cardinal Gasquet's task is one of enormous value as well as gigantic labor. This year the jubilant festival of Easter will wear for Roman Catholics an additional brilliance...
...Hebrew original; the New Testament he took from its original Greek. In Bethlehem, where he had journeyed from Rome, he lived like a hermit while he worked. His translation gradually became recognized by the early Church with a sanction more universal than that bestowed upon any of the other Latin scriptures, which were, for the most part, localized and incomplete...
...prose material includes two or three articles of varying length, subject, and merit; a story of considerable length on Latin America, the sea, revolution and a wop sailor with an O. Henry ending which is even less convincing than the rest of the story; and finally an essay on one of the minor incidents in the life of Alexander Pope, "Vendetta," by J. E. Barnett, which is probably the high light of the entire issue. It is a straightforward, readable account of Pope's literary feud with Lady Wortley Montagu--an account which is attractive chiefly, perhaps, because its pretensions...
...characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver of the poinsettia to botany) put him in the Army Topographical Corps. He explored in the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, returned to Washington...