Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grim, grey-haired Dr. Bessie R. Burchett, a high-school Latin teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils...
...Harvard seal is the usual coat of arms, containing the word "Veritas," encircled by the Latin engraving, "Sigilum Academiae Harvardianae in Nov: Ang:". The coat of arms without the inscription is perfectly correct for stationery, but with the inscription it should only be used by the University...
Precise, perspicacious William Dawson, 53, of St. Paul, Minn, is, like all other chief U. S. diplomats now in South America, a seasoned diplomat. Behind him are 30 years of unbroken foreign service, the last eleven in Latin America (Ecuador and Colombia before Uruguay...
Exuberant "Ronnie" Knox, son of the late Anglican Bishop of Manchester, brother of Editor Edmund George Valpy ("Evoe") Knox of Punch, has been a man of letters since he wrote Latin and Greek epigrams at ten. Brought up an Anglican, he took holy orders soon after leaving Oxford's Balliol College, became Anglican chaplain of Trinity College. Converted to Catholicism before the War, he was ordained priest in 1919. In 1926, the year he became Oxford's chaplain, Father Knox scared England over the radio just as Orson Welles scared the U. S. last autumn: he broadcast...
Thus the Juniper tree Never ceases to be Since observed by yours faithfully God. This summer Monsignor Knox retires from Oxford to execute a commission given him by England's Roman Catholic bishops: a new translation of the Vulgate (Latin) scriptures...