Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Romance in the Dark was in the making, considerable fuss was made over a sequence in which Singer Swarthout was pelted with tomatoes by an opera audience. Previewers greeted the scene with no enthusiasm, and it was cut out. Now the only tomato thrown squishes over the Latin features of Tenor Fortunio Bona-Nava...
Abhorrence No. 1, Hell-devil No. 1, to Poet Pound, is usury. In nine of these ten Cantos he does some powerful cursing at usury in English, Latin, and Greek: he calls it commune sepulchrum helandros kai heleptolis kai helarxe (everybody's grave -man-destroying-and city-destroying- and state-destroying). Throughout history Poet Pound sees the same monetary blood-sucking going on, whether in profaned ancient Greek temples, perverted lyth-Century Mounts of Pity (i.e., municipal pawnshops), or stone-faced 20th-century banks...
Schlesinger, a member of the Senior Class at Harvard, prepared for college at the Cambridge High and Latin School and at Phillips Exeter Academy. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has been elected First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa...
Damon, who will receive the A. B. degree from Harvard this June, entered college from the Boston Latin School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is concentrating in Sociology. He was Business Chairman of the Freshman Red Book, has been a member of the Student Union and University Band, and has been on the Freshman and Varsity lacrosse teams...
...correspondents investigated they found no major revolt but a few Gold Shirts taking pot shots at police and Federal troops. After a day of skirmishing three Gold Shirts, one policeman, lay dead, 25 Gold Shirts were jailed. At dusk, Tamaulipas' Governor Marte R. Gómez took the Latin method of relieving tension. Alone, he strolled around the plaza at Matamoros. "It's time for the evening promenade," he purred to the cautious citizens. Soon eligible senoritas and the ardent young men joined in their usual strolls and the crisis was over. "Mexico is in a state...