Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Symphony, whose reputation has grown steadily, today is not far from the top echelon of U.S. orchestras. This season the orchestra hopes to repeat last year's feat of landing in the black. Propelled by Conductor Howard Mitchell, the symphony this summer goes on a ten-week Latin American tour, also gives some 30 concerts a year for visiting teen-age tourists...
Nevertheless, she became restless and bored. Though her formal education had stopped after a year of high school, Gertrude Stein decided she was going to Harvard. Latin was required for entry, and Gertrude knew only German and French. The stories of how this titanic young woman came to be admitted do not agree. In any case, Radcliffe accepted her and she went to live in a Cambridge boarding house, which she described as "interesting and knowing a lot who I had never seen before...
...Correspondent George de Carvalho in elegant French: "Be tranquil, mon cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a strange alliance, this dandified scion of the rich class that Peru calls "the oligarchs" has teamed up with Ramiro Prialé, 55, the revolutionary who bosses Latin America's greatest mass political movement, the Apra, to put Peruvian democracy on a working, paying basis...
...they are all the rage. Each week some 4,000,000 Italians, mostly women, pay an estimated $385,000 for the latest copies of Dream, Eternal Passion, Sun in My Eyes, My Woman, Grand Hotel and dozens of other fumetti publications. Fumetti magazines have also proved popular in other Latin countries: the fumetti-like Nous Deux (We Two) has the largest weekly circulation (upwards of 1,700,000) in France...
Alice began her journalistic career at twelve while a student at the Girls Latin School of Chicago. As co-editor of the weekly four-page mimeographed Neighborhood News (circ. 225), she waged her first crusade against Chicago's dirty streets and the sanitation department's lethargic collection schedules. By selling ads to local merchants, Alice and a friend raised $25, bought the city six new trash cans, and so shamefaced the aldermen that they appropriated $9,000 more for new cans, asked Alice for a list of street corners where she wanted them placed...