Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cameras use brighter lights, need glass partitions or windows to prevent recording the clicking of the machines, boast much more involved paraphernalia than ordinary cinemachines. Greater conveniences exist in Hollywood, yet many a cinemactor has blanched before his first "talkie" ordeal. Difficult therefore was the role of the polyglot actors in Paris. And difficult also the job of the cameramen stumbling over and struggling with old rose-covered chairs and large horseshoe table...
...President Coolidge made known that he regards with favor the idea of a polyglot conference ("world gathering," "international parley," "pact ceremony," "peace rally") at Paris, before long, to sign the multilateral Kellogg treaty renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
...commonplaces, none is more spectacular than calling the U. S. a "melting pot." The Noyes wrapping for this household article is "new united Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee...
...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...