Word: polyglot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polish Jew claims to be the greatest linguist in the world because, in order to suceed in business in that polyglot section of the world around the northwest corner of old Germany, the merchant had to speak at least six languages. The Dutch rate high as linguists merely because, being surrounded by five different nations using different tongues, and depending upon them for commercial success, the Hollander is compelled to speak English. German, and French, and to understand Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians. The Swiss merchant must do business in French. English, German, and Italian and does. The Dutchman in Ceylon...
...newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio (TIME, July 26). However, there is one town which has recently raised the visceral tension of the righteous about once a month. That town is Cicero, Ill., a Utopian nook for the twins. Here on the western fringe of Chicago is a polyglot population of 62,000-Irishmen, Italians, Sicilians, Slavs and many another tribe. The Western Electric Co. employs thousands of them; other industries are near and plentiful. But it is to the gangs of the Bad Lands that Cicero owes its headline glamor. Up and down its streets, fiery Sicilians...
...head of the Congress was Lovett Fort Whiteman. He visited Russia a year ago. He is said to be the Reddest of the Blacks. He is well educated, a polyglot, an orator. He told the Congress...
...great pit of the House of Representatives in the Capitol at Washington, on the first day of October there will assemble a strange polyglot agglomeration of men whom the peoples of the teeming earth have chosen to regulate their liberties and decree their tabus?the Interparliamentary Union. Gatherings of diplomats from half the countries of the world are fairly common, and assemblages of executive heads, premiers, dictators and Presidents are not unknown. But the lawmakers of the world generally remain in a magnificent isolation from international contacts. The Interparliamentary Union is the great exception. In Paris...
...Unafraid that they would generalize their subject into thin air, they deployed last week in polyglot platoons to discuss international teaching of History ("banish war heroics"), Civics and Geography; establishment of standard courses, in the normal schools of all countries, on Internationalism; establishment of a world university and a universal library service; agreement upon a reciprocal arrangement concerning university degrees and credits, whereby students could migrate from one university to those of other countries without interrupting their studies...