Word: polyglotism
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...claws of those wampyres of the humanity-the crooky jew usurers." Once he was elected (under an assumed nationality) to the throne of Bulgaria, but a barber recognized him and spoiled it all. He made and lost fortunes at the gaming table, hobnobbed with royalty, became kingpin of a polyglot community in Siberia, escaped to the U. S. ("the Contry of the Gold Devil"), where he pyramided another flimsy fortune, gradually subsided into a broken-down old panhandler in the Orient. When Authoress Benson last heard of him he was in Macao, "where, for the moment, he stands balanced...
...Hopkins) surgeon, elected last year. Elected last week to be president for 1934-35 was Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring. 64, rich Des Moines internist, able diagnostician, a descendant of Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses call him a ''natural," conversational entertainer. A 200-lb. six-footer, he recently...
...ring telegram not only brought a sharp retort from the Swedish editor, but caused the first open squabble in the polyglot Fascist-Nationalist Cabinet. To Chancellor Hitler, Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath loudly insisted that Hermann Göring must be prevented from sticking his pugnacious nose into foreign affairs...
...third time in his 20-odd busy years of pedagogy, Harry Woodburn Chase-now white-haired though only 49 -made ready to move last week. He had accepted the chancellorship (presidency) of sprawling, polyglot New York University, to succeed Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown who is retiring at 71. Dr. Chase once said that his faith was in the State universities. N. Y. U. is privately endowed, receiving nothing from city or State. But it is large-the nation's largest, with 27,905 degree candidates-and its widespread activities are such as to keep Dr. Chase busy and happy...
...John Henry MacCracken, associate director of the American Council on Education, U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University, President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan, President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington (Washington, D. C.) and President Nicholas Murray Butler of polyglot Columbia, who cried, "Reactionary and stupid...