Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polyglot Party...
...picture of General Semenov in TIME for Aug. 23 recalled vividly an encounter with the General in March 1918. A refugee train was on its way from Petrograd to Harbin carrying a polyglot group of diplomatic officials, business men and bankers. On board were the staff of the American embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank...
...Sylvia is the Girl Scouts' "ideal" name. Unfortunately at Briarcliff the nearest thing to a bona fide Sylvia was one Solveig (Pahle) from Oslo, 18 years old, a four-language polyglot...
What has happened in New York is really a combination of two things. In the first place the burlesque houses have been conducted on a level of crudity and indecency that would doubtless bring flushes of shame to the most unblushing Parisian chorine, much more to Manhattan's polyglot population with its admixture of northern blood. Succumbing to their own ambition for spotlights and publicity and big box-office appeal, the leaders of the trade have made too much noise, and no less an authority than Ann Corio has claimed that the industry was "getting along nicely as long...
MEET YOURSELF AS You REALLY ARE-Prince Leopold Loewenstein &. William Gerhardi-Lippincott ($2). A Freudian parlor game, the ingenious patent of an amateur psychologist and a sometimes witty English novelist (Memoirs of a Polyglot, Resurrection...