Word: teutonico
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...completion of the building I have the right to insist that the structure shall remain as I built it!" Architect Warren planned to top the library with a heavy balustrade of floral pillars so shaped and intertwined as to spell out suggestively rather than distinctly the inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). He has always claimed that this inscription was written and entrusted to him by Belgium's late famed hero-prelate, Desiré Cardinal Mercier. To alter the wording by so much as one letter would, he said...
...University was enjoined to permit Architect Warren to erect his inscriptional balustrade Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta, on the ground that it was part of the original architectural plan approved by University authorities years...
...Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta." ("Destroyed by Teutonic Fury; Restored by American Gifts...
...DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FURY; RESTORED BY AMERICAN GIFTS" is the way in which most people would translate the Latin sentence, "Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta...
...milksop!" last week, when famed Art Patron Otto Kahn resigned as a member of Manhattan's unofficial Advisory Film Committee because it had sponsored the showing of the British cinema drama Dawn (TIME, March 12, 19), which depicts the shooting of Nurse Cavell in Belgium with realistic Teutonico furore. When the film was shown at Brussels it was received with tranquil approval. In England the Baldwin Cabinet made every effort to have Dawn suppressed; but it was finally approved by the London municipal authorities and shown, after emasculating cuts, without untoward incident...