Word: polyglotting
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Seven Chicago artists last week had seven simultaneous one-man shows in the Chicago Art Institute, biggest one-man show spree in the Institute's history. The seven Director Robert Bartholow Harshe had dredged from Chicago's polyglot Bohemia included a Russian, a German...
Nowhere Bound (by Leo Birinski; Birinski, Inc., producer) includes in its overstuffed cast characters named Tomski, McTavish, Schwartz, Grasso, Maureen, Basil Oxley, Ipolita Romanescu and A Young Turk. This polyglot crew is traveling involuntarily across the continent in a sleeping car on a special Government train. When they reach Ellis Island they are all to be deported as undesirable aliens. With this novel background, Playwright Birinski manages with considerable grace to produce a number of situations no less novel...
...that the islands be given their freedom as soon as it could be conveniently arranged. Soon most of the islands' 12,000,000 people began crying in their eight languages and 87 dialects that freedom would be immediately convenient. Year after year they voiced their polyglot appeal, gave their pompous little brown-skinned politicos hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend the winter comfortably in Washington agitating for freedom...
...from doldrums. At Union Church he will try much the same thing. Though it has had such able pastors as Rev. Dr. Ernest Graham Guthrie (now of Chicago) and the late Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, Union Church has but 389 enrolled members. Surrounded by lodging houses, it draws polyglot congregations; one Sunday School class is in Chinese. Calling it "a strategic city situation," Dr. Bradley plans to bring in students from Andover Newton Theological School where he will be professor of Applied Christianity this year. Said he to a Christian Century correspondent...
...Dutra's win again emphasized the transition of U. S. golf from an Anglo-Saxon monopoly to a polyglot profession. Ex-Champion Sarazen's extraction is Italian, ex-Champion Burke's is Lithuanian (Bur-kowski). Champion Dutra's forbears were, with the Espinosas. among California's early Spanish settlers. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 230 Ib., Dutra is one of the game's hugest players. Abroad last year with the Ryder Cup team he was caricatured as King Kong...