Word: polyglot
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...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...
...extricate himself from an embarrassing situation when his wife and a detective raid his hideaway. Room of Dreams. This play had a complicated birth-written by Daniel Coxe from a translation by James L. A. Burrell and Anne Sprague MacDonald of the original Viennese of Ernest Raoul Weiss. But polyglot parentage cannot be entirely responsible for the nonsensical finished product which ushered in the New York Theatre Assembly's season. It seems that Lucien, unable to win Adrienne-his best friend's wife-has his rooms decorated precisely like the intimate chambers of his beloved. This happy eccentricity...
Vastly different was the McEwans' slow tango. Executed by Scots, it is a French adaptation from the Argentine and is, according to its creator, "a ver-r-r-a d-r-r-r-aggy dance." Because of its polyglot source it was named The International Tango. Lazy in tempo?32 bars to the minute?its slowness is compensated by twists and spins...