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Last week at Perugia the inference to be drawn from this ancient History was stark and plain. What was a Roman lake may become an Italian mill pond. While II Duce spoke, many a Perugian tingled with imperial dreams, forgot that the immediate occasion for ecstasy was the dedication by Premier Mussolini of a new college intended for foreign students at the ancient University of Perugia...
...Most histories of Greek Literature," he said, "take it as an established fact that the Homeric epics were the earliest crystallization of folk-song in the ancient world that might properly be termed poetry, and that all poetic song has descended from them and from them alcne. As a matter of fact, the molpe, antedating the Iliad and Odyssey by many years, is the true spring of song for which the historians are looking...
Member of Ancient Family...
...must round her territories by the sea," that he must help her by becoming the Napoleon of Nicaragua. Peter drinks deep of destiny, joins him. On the squalid, turbulent breast of Central America, they achieve momentary success. There is all the usual panoply of historical romance: the storming of ancient citadels, the intrigue of Bourbon-breath'd henchmen, the moneyed powers, the lovely Senorita de Avila who dies heroically so that Peter may live. Filibuster Walker, as some may recall, spurns the aid of the mighty Commodore Van- derbilt. So the Commodore who spits tobacco to the delight...
...rest, the voice of the people must be heard at some favorable time. It usually resounds in November in stadium, forum, or in the still static affected vehicle of current propagandizing, the radio. What does it say? The answer is rather obvious, dividing into such natural divisions as did ancient Gaul: I like football; I like the Democratic Party; I like the Republican Party: And that is that...