Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flowing robes and floppy velvet bonnets to receive honorary Doctorates of Civil Laws at the university's centuries-old Encaenia-the first time opposing party heads have ever been jointly honored there. In the Sheldonian Theater, a Public Orator read out the traditionally glowing, donnishly funny praises in Latin, described Macmillan (Greats, 1919) as an "imperturbable Scot" who "watches the signs of the sky most attentively, but above all the Great Bear, whose progeny has lately added a bleep to the music of the spheres." (". . . caeli signa attentissime observat, ante omnia ursam maiorem, quae caelestium choro progeniem blantem nuper...
...church-burning war on Catholicism, the same bomb-hurling gangs switched from Jews to Catholics, beat up friars (one was killed) and tried to catch anti-Peronista Father Cucchetti. To his hiding place came a friendly visitor-Rabbi Schlesinger. By last week their friendship had resulted in Latin America's first interfaith union: Movimiento de Confraternidad Judeo-Christian...
Homecoming Heroes. Almost incidentally, there was also some excellent soccer. And the final game was one of the greatest in the history of the sport: the unbeaten Brazilians collided with unbeaten Sweden, one of the roughest, toughest-tackling teams in Europe. Deft and delicate Latin footwork was put to the ultimate test...
...Paris opened with a ballyhooed two-hour revue featuring Stripper Britton and starring Shouter Betty Hutton. Boniface Walters (who ran Manhattan's Latin Quarter for years) paid $22,500 a week just for Singer Hutton. For such a blue chip outlay, he needed two full houses every week night and three on weekends, with every one of the 1,000 seats returning as much as $30. The first week he grossed $70,000 and lost $10,000. Says he: "If I'd paid Hutton a normal salary, I could have made $10,000 instead...
...near Budapest, prisoners formed a remarkable literary cooperative. For writing paper, they stole toilet paper. They fashioned pens out of metal fragments and mixed blood and coffee grounds for ink. By pooling their memories, they produced portions of Ovid, Catullus, Vergil, Shakespeare and Whitman in the original Latin and English, then translated them into Hungarian. In the end, the Vac prisoners produced a handwritten, hand-bound, four-volume anthology of prose and verse...