Word: polyglotism
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...frequently (it was an easy trick once he learned it) instigator. The American that gladdened his heart was Hiram Maxim, whose new machine gun was incomparably the best killing machine Zaharoff had ever seen. Zaharoff took Maxim to his bosom, with reservations. First he used his wily, polyglot salesmanship to block the gun's sale in Austria as an impractical toy; them, when he had offered Maxim a partnership and get the sale of the gun firmly in his own hands he swept over Europe and Asia selling such quantities that soon the new firm of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns...
...court, always the stiffest in Europe, would be a drawing card for Austria's languishing tourist trade. It would bring Austria the not inconsiderable backing of the Vatican. On the other hand, the restoration of Otto in Austria is but a stepping stone to restoration of the entire polyglot Austro-Hungarian Empire. It would cause instant mobilization of the armies of Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania, countries that have battened on the partition of that Empire. It would cause new rioting in Vienna, still Socialist at heart. It would be violently opposed by France. Establishment of another court would...
...depressing; he expatriated himself to Paris. There, with Ernest Hemingway as his sanest subeditor, the encouragement of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, and with the backing of the late U. S. backer, John Quinn. he started the transatlantic review. A helpful man, he was much put upon by the polyglot bohemians. He once made an appointment at the British Embassy for Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhofen; she showed up "simply dressed in a brassière of milktins connected by dog chains and wearing on her head a plum-cake...
...When the apes go, so will the British" is another belief to which Gibraltar's polyglot population fondly clings. Sensible Britishers smile tolerantly, take no chances on the apes disappearing. Food for them is a standard item in Gibraltar's colonial budget...
...other U.S. mayor. The Mayor of the nation's second city- hustling, bustling, brawling, sprawling Chicago-should by rights rank next to the Mayor of New York in national prestige and power. But he does not. He governs the most thoroughly American city in the land, a polyglot metropolis that began as a cast-off of the East as the East began as a cast-off of Europe. Chicago's chuffing, puffing yards constitute the railroad centre of the U.S. It holds the U.S. grain trade in its pits. Its stockyards are unmatched. In its grimy...