Word: linguistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infantry and a detachment of Red Cossack cavalry. President Kalinin, stepping forward and extending his hand, said briefly in Russian: "In behalf of the Soviet Government I greet your Majesty's arrival in the Soviet Union." Then as Queen Thuraya descended from the train, that great and polished linguist Soviet Foreign Minister Georges Tchitcherin advanced and addressed Their Majesties in their own tongue. He said...
...Neudorf, there is Ricard Boonisar '29, a pure blooded Assyrian, who will teach the cast how to pronounce difficult Arabian names. The pronunciation of such words as "eyewallah", "istagfarrulah", "marshalla", and "saleikum" puzzled the play-producers and began to loom up as an unsurmountable obstacle, until the bio-linguist Boonisar was discovered. He came to the aid of the perplexed actors, and for the past week has been drilling the cast of "Hassan" it the intricacies of oriental speech...
...Ripley began drawing "Believe It or Not" eight years ago in the old New York Globe. Today, he employs a linguist, two readers, a secretary; receives an average of 1,000 letters a week. He has traveled in 53 countries in search of material. Simon & Schuster will soon publish "Believe It or Not" in book form...
...other poems are an interesting group of songs and sighs; some awkward and untamed like children at their first party; some cool and keenly expressive of a poised and brave linguist. For great audacity is revealed in the fact that the book contains not only self-expression in English but reveries and sighs in Latin and German...
...book itself is more interesting than its contents. It is the third in a series called "The American Panorama." The first two, far better books, folklore rather than fantasy, were Run, Sheep, Run and Gypsy Down the Lane. Author Williamson, onetime hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newsgatherer, wrestler, linguist, social worker, Harvard student and African explorer, has French, Irish, Norwegian and Welsh blood. Unless this is his autobiography he may be said to have imagination...