Word: latinity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of his program to keep the fires of Hispanidad burning brightly in Latin American hearts, Dictator Francisco Franco maneuvered a law through the Spanish Cortes last year allowing Latinos to lay claim to vacant Spanish titles of nobility once borne by their ancestors. Since then, the project has languished- partly because of opposition from Spain's rank-proud Committee of Grandees. Last week, however, the government defied the grandees and published a list of 97 out of 400 available Spanish-American titles. They were available, that is, for a price. Claimants whose proofs of lineage were accepted would...
...International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has lent $125,100,000 to Latin American countries (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), took another step last week to help carry out President Truman's Point Four development program in South America. The bank announced that a team of nine experts, headed by ex-Brain Truster Lauchlin Currie, would spend three months studying ways to increase Colombia's wealth...
...riders of the jeep were quick to approve. Above the young bull's number in a thick registry book, a rider initialed in red ink the letters B.P. (for Bravo Pronto). That meant that two years later, on some Sunday afternoon, in some jam-packed arena in Latin America, the fighting animal would carry the proud red-grey-and-gold colors of La Punta...
Smith College's Eleanor Shipley Duckett, 68, crisp, brisk author and scholar of Latin and medieval literature (Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars; Gateway to the Middle Ages) whose Latin 28 was one of Smith's most uncut classes. A D.Lit. from the University of London, Miss Duckett for years shared a trim white house with her West Highland white terrier Gregory (named after Gregory the Great) and Novelist Mary Ellen Chase (Silas Crockett, The Bible and the Common Reader); she has long celebrated the completion of each Chase book by buying its author an ice cream cone...
...three can do what I do-with 30 years' practice." Dunninger, 53, has been on the boards for 35 years. He has mystified six U.S. Presidents the Duke of Windsor, Steinmetz, Thomas Edison, and the Pope (who, Dunninger reports, gave him a few bad moments by thinking in Latin...