Word: apollos
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...sudden visit to Manhattan. At the Julia Richman High School, girls cheered him; at the Museum of Natural History, where he saw dodos and dinosaurs, the officials and guides recognized him. Leaving the Times Annex, chorus girls cheered him from the windows of their dressing room in the Apollo Theatre. On his way to the Herald-Tribune offices he was pointed out by the inimitable Will Rogers to a bevy of Ziegfeld Follies beauties who immediately broke into raucous cheers...
...generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than the day dream of an idle afternoon, as the blind minstrel whiled away the sunny hours on some hillside overlooking...
Clothed in the cast-off garments of Apollo, with a crown of bay generally askew, strumming at intervals a tuneless lyre, the genius of the paper has lived on unchallenged and unchallenging while its mascot Pegasus has remained fast tethered in his stall...
...James M. Barrie, British playwright: " In London, attention was called to the fact that three plays by me?What Every Woman Knows at the Apollo, The Will (one-act) at the St. Martin's, Rosalind (one^act) at the Criterion?are running simultaneously, and that a fourth, The Little Minister, would soon be revived...
...regular festival chorus of 325 and an added band of 80 men and women singers from the National Cash Register Company, with 48 professional vocalists to chant t he solo parts so that the quartettes were themselves fair sized choruses-that began Cincinnati's homage to Apollo for 1923. It was prodigious-for mere magnitude. Imagine a dozen soprano voices singing a trill in unison, as they did. The performance was very good, and received universal praise. It deserved...