Word: marti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What happened here was that a spanish bum and red did throw some Orange peels at a german marine while they paid their respect to our great martyr "Marti" at his monument with a flower design...
Last week U. S. citizens were again reminded that not all grandiose nuts & nostrums are homegrown. Some ten years ago an engaging young Russian who had taken the name Anatole de la Marti appeared in Manhattan, attempted to interest the late Ivy Lee in publicizing certain large schemes for economic betterment which he had conceived. Meeting no success, M. de la Marti returned to Europe, was forgotten...
...ECONOMIC CRISIS. Beneath it, crowding the whole page with small, close-packed type and spilling over into an extra column, was advertised a cure-all for the world's ills. At the top of one column appeared a photograph of the nostrum's author, Anatole de la Marti. After plowing through a column or two. most readers were too dazed to proceed. But the gist of M. de la Marti's plan was to establish a "World Record Service . . . for carrying out competitions in all fields of economic activity, with new and hitherto unknown stimulus, and with...
...Marti closed his prospectus with a solemn protest to the League of Nations that "the Government of a Country . . . has insidiously seized the ideas and propositions contained in my plan . . . misusing them for its own selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...
...When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical Latine author extempore, and make and speak true Latine verse and prose, suoet aiunt Marti; and decline perfectly the paradignes of nounes and verbes in the Greek tongue: let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the College...