Word: polyglot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock that morning the four defendants, whom a polyglot jury had convicted of manslaughter instead of second-degree murder, were led into the Honolulu courtroom where they had sat through their three-week trial. Mounting the bench Judge Charles S. Davis pronounced his sentence: "Ten years imprisonment at hard labor."* A smile flickered across Lieut. Massie's face. Mrs. Fortescue almost pranced she was so happy. The two enlisted men were as jaunty as ever. They all knew what was coming...
With all testimony in, the polyglot Honolulu jury trying Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N.. his mother-in-law and two naval enlisted men for second-degree murder, was left last week with a split-second blind spot on the actual killing of Joseph Kahahawai Jr., Hawaiian buck. Nowhere in the sworn evidence was an eye-witness account of all that happened that early January morning at Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue's. Between the time Kahahawai, cowed by a revolver held by Lieut. Massie, allegedly confessed to the ravishment of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie and a bullet...
...verge of martial law, oldtime white residents of Honolulu well knew out of what black and bitter soil this latest crime had grown, but for political or commercial reasons they kept their mouths shut. The childlike, romantic Hawaiian of pure blood, they privately explained, has almost disappeared in a polyglot breed of Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese. Most U. S. whites on the islands look down socially upon this hybrid population. While socially inferior, the brown-skinned "Hawaiian" is a full-fledged U. S. citizen with political rights and power equal to those of the ruling white caste. Oldtime white...
...menu is printed and the conversation carried on in French and German, with professors present to keep the conversation alive. English is barred. Exquisite touch: the waitresses speak French and German. So successful have the linguistic tables become that it is planned for other students of other languages at polyglot Harvard...
...somewhat stolid placidity. Though you would never guess it from her voice she comes from Virginia, but her father moved the family to a Nebraska ranch, near Red Cloud, when she was eight. Instead of going to school she rode her pony around the country, getting acquainted with her polyglot neighbors: Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Bohemians, Germans, French Canadians. "I used to ride home in the most unreasonable state of excitement; I always felt as if they had told me so much more than they said-as if I had actually got inside another person's skin." She likes Nebraska...