Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidents of the 20 more or less democratic republics of Latin America Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight dispatched copies, inscribed and handsomely printed at his own expense, of the enthusiastically democratic speeches he delivered during his junket to the Pan-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires last year. Last week came a singularly disappointing response from Good Neighbor Roosevelt's "good friend" President Getulio Dornelles Vargas of Brazil...
...promote international friendship, the U. S. Government went on the air to sing not its own praises but those of its neighbors. Over 65 Columbia Broadcasting System stations, the most elaborate educational radio program ever attempted by the Government began ''Brave new world! The story of Latin America. . . . Twenty nations with a history and culture to be admired and a democratic ideal we share...
...weekly plays, of which last week's was the first, the U. S.. Office of Education will dramatize for U. S. citizens Latin-American history, heroes, culture and wealth. Said U. S. Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker: "This will probably be the first time in history that one government has spent time and money on a sustained effort to help its own citizens appreciate the ideals of people across the border...
...Hortense Monath, 29. In her native Newark, N. J., Hortense Monath took slight interest in piano practice until she was twelve, was not much keener about it until, on her 16th birthday, she heard Schnabel play. Then, she says, "I grew up in one day." Schnabel, who had learned Latin from her father, took Pianist Monath as pupil, still coaches her although she made her Manhattan debut five years...
...commend TIME for its translation of Pliny the Elder's remark about the Etruscan ceramic statues. We teachers of Latin are so used to hearing such a sentence woodenly rendered "More sacred than gold and certainly more innocent," that it brightens the day for us to meet a vigorous and idiomatic translation...