Word: latine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor. Another Smith habit is whittling anything he puts his hands on. In 15 years in the same Senate seat he has cut a hole about an inch square in the arm of his chair. As an orator he is given to long words, not always correctly used, and Latin legalisms (hence his nickname). He often talks With a mouthful of tobacco which gives him a "hot-potato" enunciation. On the Senate floor he is an almost indefatigable speaker, winning many a point by sheer persistence. Second only to Alabama's Heflin is he as a "darkey story" teller...
...Boston Symphonist Emmanuel Fiedler, who played second violin in the famed Kneisel Quartet. Fiddler Fiedler named his boy after the late great violinist Artur Nikisch, onetime Boston Symphony conductor. Aged 6, the boy studied violin with his father, piano with his mother. Later he went to Boston Latin School and studied piano with Carl Lamson, longtime accompanist to Fritz Kreisler...
President Ralph A. O'Neill's assets are a sympathetic personality which Latin-Americans would go far to please, a War flying
...career, the organization of the present Mexican air force, a hard business head, an adeptness in Latin-American politico-commercial intrigue...
...mail to Latin-American countries should be labeled "par avian?by air mail...