Word: polyglot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medieval Latin and 18th Century French, and have not yet arrived at Basic English; and in the meantime we have to do the best we can talking all the languages at once, like Marx and Engels in their correspondence, like Joyce in Finnegans Wake, like Eugene Jolas in his polyglot poetry, and like Angelica Balabanoff in these poems." But such tedious stuff is flanked by a charming essay on Alexander Woollcott (who was brought into the world by Wilson's grandfather, a doctor), and a hilarious dissection of the atrocious style of Joseph E. Davies' Mission to Moscow...
...92nd combat record was spotty. It became a polyglot group, absorbing other U.S. and Allied contingents. On the 366th Regiment's front, some Negro troops fell back precipitately before an enemy attack,* a British Indian unit had to close the gap in the line. Once, at a forward post under machine-gun fire, Almond ordered a sergeant to go out and silence the enemy gun. After a while the sergeant came back...
...Tinian, 32 square miles in the Marianas, polyglot leper patients may come from any of the thousands of islands scattered over the watery 3,000,000 sq. mi. of the Trust Territory (former Japanese mandate). Dr. McNeilly will have a warrant officer, four corpsmen, three native nurses and two native aids to help...
Died. Rafael Sabatini, 75, author of more than 40 jack-booted cloak-and-rapier romances (Scaramouche, The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood), historian and playwright; in Adelboden, Switzerland. Born in Italy and raised as a polyglot cosmopolite, Sabatini made England his home and English ("All the best stories are written in English") his language...
...good-will mission, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands last week set his red-nosed, silver-skinned DC-3 down in the only Netherlands territory on the American continent. Surinam, the middle of the three Guianas on South America's north coast, gave the Prince a gaudily polyglot greeting...