Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...