Word: agamemnon
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...Shipping Board adopted a resolution expressing a change of its plans in regard to rebuilding two of its large passenger vessels. A ship which has borne the names of three famous but ill-assorted men (Kaiser Wilhelm II, President Harding and now Agamemnon) and the Mount Vernon (formerly Kronprinzessin Cecile) were to be reconditioned at a cost of $4,000,000 each...
...Agamemnon and Mount Vernon are 20 years old. The Shipping Board estimated that similar ships could be built new for $12,000,000 each. The conclusion was obvious: $8,000,000 apiece was too much for reconditioning. Instead, the Board announced its intention of asking Congress for money to build two new ships. It is more or less problematic whether Congress will grant the money and sink more money in the expensive business of ship owning, which at present is popularly supposed to be costing the Government $50,000,000 a year...
...fountain of youth which flows no more for Agamemnon and Mount Vernon...
...Promotion of Hellenic Studies. During the war he acted as an instructor in the University R. O. T. C. and served on several war time committees. He was connected with Mr. Francis H. Bacon in the publication of "Investigations at Assos" and assisted in the production of "Agamemnon" in the Stadium...
...poem "Cassandra" is possibly the most interesting and arresting one in the book. It is the story of the Trojan priestess from a short while before her dedication to Apollo, until the coming of Agamemnon's hosts. The subject and the art are more nearly Greek than anything we have seen attempted in this country for many years. In the contrast between Cassandra's secret love for Corebus and her unwilling surrended to the God, the writer subtly shows the tryanny of those beings whom Homer certainly did not over-much respect. Greek too is the feeling, dimly sensed throughout...