Word: polyglots
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...Volga on his 382nd birthday: his native Stratford blossomed with its customary annual festival, but the Soviet Union broke out all over. Hamlet was a smash in Armenia, King Lear drew iron tears down Tartar cheeks, Two Gentlemen of Verona titillated the Uzbekistanians; altogether, Shakespeare was played to polyglot Russia in 27 languages...
Scranton had fallen on evil days. Anthracite had once been king in the Lackawanna Valley, but the king was dead. Hard coal diggings had scarred Scranton's hills and undermined its streets; the exhausted mines threatened to cave in the whole economy of the polyglot community among the culm dumps of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Even the war had given Scranton only a cardboard security...
Died. Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (pronounced pot-yom-kin), 68, former U.S.S.R. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whose tactful, pactful diplomacy was largely responsible for treaties with Italy (1933) and France (1935); after long illness; in Moscow. A revolution-minded mathematics teacher in Tsarist days, amiable polyglot (septilingual) Potemkin championed collective security, was Maxim Litvinoffs longtime right-hand...
...picul of gold was a drop in the bucket; he had reaped one of the polyglot Portuguese colony's biggest fortunes from his teeming salons, where gamblers from nearby Hong Kong and South China came for fan-tan and cusek (played with dice). During the war Foo got into the big time; he cornered Macao's food market. On the profits he kept six concubines in a Macao mansion...
Down the Drain. The mood of Erich Maria Remarque's new novel (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for February) is quiet desperation. Most of its characters are émigrés of polyglot nationalities. Its setting is Paris, the sink in which most of them have been stranded before being washed down the drain. The time is the eve of World...