Word: latinity
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...First duty of Belgium's Leopold was to emulate his father, lead his Army in the field. His three children, nephews and niece of Italian Crown Prince Umberto, were reported to have gone to Italy. Small Princess Josephine Charlotte resumed the study of Latin with her tutor. Monsieur Du Pare...
...police seized secret Nazi radio stations and broke up street demonstrations while Government officials warned Argentines that Hitler rule would destroy the civilization of centuries. Newspapers in Bolivia and Chile clamored for suppression of blatant Nazi activities. Colombia became jittery over the possibility of sabotage to her oil lines. Latin Americans suddenly realized what Germans have long known, namely that nowhere else in the world is the ground more fertile for sprouting fifth columns, and nowhere has Nazi infiltration been more assiduously fostered...
Chief equerry of Nazi Trojan horses in Latin America is General Wilhelm Faupel, square-headed, lantern-jawed, vociferous pressure man who persuaded Hitler to intervene in the Spanish War and was first Nazi Ambassador to Nationalist Spain. As President of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, he directs "cultural" relations, but also arranges contacts between aspiring Latin American generals and the Reichswehr. Speaking before the German Academy on the occasion of the Lima Pan-American Conference, he declared: "There is but one danger to Latin America. That is the United States...
Wonderful is British school boys' slang. Derived from Latin, classical literature and centuries of schoolboy gibberish, it is as much a trademark of public (British for private) schools as the old school tie. It is also a clue to the character of British public schoolboys. Last week Britons able to take their minds off death in Flanders could amuse themselves with an authoritative new dictionary of schoolboys' slang (Public School Slang, by Morris Marples -Constable...
Etonians use relatively little slang, get most of it from Latin. Some Etonisms: bumble (small beer with raisins), furk (an illegal football kick), lush (sweets), nant (a swimmer), pec (money-from pe-cunia), Pop (famed Eton society, from popina, a cookshop, where meetings were originally held), sock...