Word: warren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...milksop is bristling, ruddy, white-haired Whitney Warren, smart and picturesque Manhattan architect, who designed the new Library, and received from Cardinal Mercier the virile Latin inscription. Last week Mr. Warren was in Belgium bristling against the would-be emasculators. "The nigger in the woodpile," said he scathingly, "has evidently been my dear friend, Nicholas Murray Butler, President of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. . . . The people of Belgium want the inscription and I might add, a very large majority of the American contributors do also. ... In America the lives of so-called free American citizens are made unbearable...
Having thus lightninged and thundered, Architect Warren ended his declaration with a statement mild as milk. He declared that the official translation of the inscription is "DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FOLLY; RESTORED BY AN AMERICAN GIFT." He added that Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain has finally ruled that the epithet "furore" shall stand. When curious persons turned to Latin dictionaries, last week, to see if "juror" could be stretched to mean "folly." they found as authorized synonyms "delusion," "frenzy," "madness," "rage" and "fury." Nobody's Latin except Architect Warren's could make "furor" mean "folly...
What "furor" meant to Desiré Mercier was discreetly hinted by foxy Architect Warren, who revealed that the Cardinal said, two months before his death: "When the Germans come back [to Louvain] as they will and as they have through the past centuries, when they read this inscription countersigned by America perhaps they may behave themselves more decently than they did the last time...
Engaged. Claire Luce, dancer, principal of the 1927 Ziegfeld Follies; to Clifford Warren Smith, son of Mrs. Newcomb Carlton,* of Manhattan...
...Harvard Alumni Chorus will present a concert in Sanders Theatre on Monday evening at 8.15 o'clock. The orchestra is under the direction of Jacques Hoffman and will play three pieces, one in conjunction with the chorus and the assisting soloists. Miss Elizabeth Worcester, soprano, and H. J. Warren, baritone, will render several selections with the aid of Miss Mary Ingraham, accompanying planist. The Alumni chorus is under the supervision of Malcolm Lang...