Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Guy was educated at the School of Pau, the Faculte of Toulouse, and the Sorbonne, after which he became professor of Rhetoric at Troyes school and then professor at the Faculte of Toulouse. A Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, he has written the "Life and Works of Adam de l'Halle," and "L'Ecole des Rhetoriqueurs...
They had personified-or spoken out of-the two "habit" sides of himself-the old Adam and the new Adam...
...first "take off" alone, as he tells it, his heart was up around his Adam's apple where it had no business. The more so when the usual little brown ambulance drew up to wait at one corner of the broad flying field...
...Adam's Apple is ever so vaguely reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Even as Wilde's Algernon Moncrieff invented his mythical friend Bunbury for a social convenience, so Playwright Test Dalton's stockmarketeer invents an opulent "Uncle John" as an excuse to escape from his wife of nights. When a burglar is caught by the wife and poses as "Uncle John" there is a great deal of embarrassment all around, no small part of which is genuine, shared by actors and audience for a play both flat and flimsy...
...seems that once in the dim and distant past there lived a sage named Hesiodus, who, reflecting upon the vagaries of human nature, exclaimed: "The HALF is MORE than the WHOLE." If he was not thinking of Adam before Eve was born, he undoubtedly had in mind, with prophetic vision, the advent of TIME...