Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eminent President of the United States, who is such an honor to his country and glory to civilization, has fallen into error. . . . We cannot expect the President of the United States, merely because he holds the office, always to be accurate. Of him, too, if I recall the Latin, it may be said, Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. Or, as our Senators schooled in the classics would translate-Sometimes even good Homer himself nods...
...accomplished at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.), grey and graceful Secretary of State Cordell Hull was by last week completing his leisurely journey back to the U. S. In country after country he stopped to eat the ritual chicken and soothe Latin American sensibilities with smiles and goodwill speeches...
...Ulysses"? Every schoolboy knows the story of the Odyssey, epic-sequel to the Iliad, which recites the ten-year wanderings of the wily Odysseus (Latin-Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is a cunning, commonsensible, nervy, not-too-scrupulous man, an opportunist who triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled...
...Cuba's new President a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, smart, trim Carlos He via who had been Secretary of Agriculture under President Grau. Whether or not Cubans will accept an "Annapolis President," Senor Hevia's choice caused eyebrows to lift throughout Latin America, created an unfortunate im pression that Mr. Caffery is Cuba's puppeteer. He was said to be displeased with the Annapolis graduate, considering him too radical despite the U. S. discipline...
President Conant, George Gordon Northop, new headmaster of Roxbury Latin, and Bancroft Beatley '13, new president of Simmons College, will be the guests of honor at a dinner given by the Roxbury Latin School Alumni Association. The dinner will take place at 7 o'clock tonight at the University Club, 40 Trinity Place, Boston...