Word: polyglotting
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...enveloping it, which it cannot understand. Mrs. Bok tried the teaching of useful trades, U. S. theories of liberty and government, the English language. She was met with forced interest, with acquiescence veiling suspicion. At length she turned to a universal language-music. She arranged for lessons for her polyglot proteges. In 1915 she established the Settlement Music School Building and endowed it permanently. Results were speedy and plainly visible. Hostility and suspicion vanished from among the families benefited by the school's work. They told their neighbors. Friendliness spread. Then it became evident that, from a musical...
...display there is also an English publication a work of sir Thomas Moore in 1557. The Satyrs of Persius, put out of France two years earlier, is not in such good condition although the copicus interlineations in its pages make it interesting. The prize of the century is the Polyglot Bible, printed in Aniweir in 1572. It is a massive dome with rare full-page cuts of miracles and clerical symbols...
...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...