Word: polyglot
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...petitioners were polyglot, representing nearly all of the 27 religious denominations in the U. S. Some signatures: the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of New York; the Rev. Edgar Y. Mullins, president of the Baptist World Alliance; Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army; Louis C. Cornish, vice president of the American Unitarian Association; William Cardinal O'Connell; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; the presidents of nine universities...
...York. Of all large universities, few have carried education to so many young people whom circumstance keeps behind ribbon counters and typewriters during business hours. The administration of such an institution is arduous, requiring as it does, not only a "night shift" faculty but manipulation of the polyglot problems that arise among the offspring of a big-city population. But, like a 24-hour newspaper, City College employs a night executive, so that last week, when the board of trustees accepted the resignation of President Sidney E. Mezes, whose health has lately failed, a logical successor was close at hand...
...ghost, a young British newspaper correspondent excitedly climbed aboard a small tugboat. He, Philip Gibbs of the London Daily Chronicle, was late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...
...having already published two sea stories and a textbook. P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman." Last autumn he published Vignettes of the Sea, much like William McFee's off-duty ruminations. The polyglot relations in East Side, West Side reflect his own. A deep-chested, straw-haired German, he married, in 1912, Maud Conroy of Queenstown, Ireland...
...love story, in the first place, becomes a delicate, powerful study in reticences. Charm conquers incredibility when, on 24 hours' notice, Mercedes Garcia of polyglot Pennsylvania origin marries Stephen Londreth, rancher-runaway from Philadelphia's aristocracy. The continental poetry of Wyoming, in the second place, emerges with clarity and sublimity; from the grave, racy, accurate talk of cowmen about their animals, to the ineffable silence of mountain ranges. The serious thesis, finally, that men are better outdoors than in; that the Antaeus myth is sober truth; that cities bury their builders' souls, is argued with a militance...