Word: athenians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delay was simple: Corizza lies in the centre of a bowl of mountains. The Greeks could not rush down into the dish until they had patiently stormed the entire rim, or else the Italians would do to them just what they had been doing to the Italians. This week Athenian reports claimed Corizza partly...
...darkest nooks in the political madhouse was the Cleveland-Elaine campaign. James G. Elaine, who entered the Presidential race trailing a none-too-savory financial reputation, was covered with calumny. Burlesquing Gerome's painting of the noted Greek courtesan Phryne confounding her Athenian judges by her naked beauty, Puck's talented Gillam showed Republican Blaine standing coyly before his party leaders, his stout, bedrawered figure tattooed with his allegedly scandalous record. Democrats chanted: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, Continental liar from the State of Maine." Republicans got dirt in their fingernails digging up the story of Maria Halpin...