Word: atticas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three years after Lord Byron died at Missolonghi muttering "Courage!" to imagined troops, the romantic Greek rebellion against the Turks still flickered in Attica, still held the sympathies of many a U. S. and English citizen. On July 19, 1827, for instance, the U. S. frigate Constitution anchored in the Straits of Salamis and quietly and unofficially sent ashore a boatload of provisions to Greek revolutionaries hiding on the small island of Psyttaleia. Before Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson could sail away, however, he was persuaded by the Greeks to buy a huge mutilated statue of great antiquity which had been...
...Buffalo, sentenced to seven years in Attica Prison for stealing 100 chickens, Max Zulek remarked, "O.K." Thereupon bad-tempered Judge F. Bret Thorn said, "If that's O.K., I'll make it ten years." "O.K.," reiterated Max Zulek...
...would have been shot down like a dog had not his brother, a Republican Deputy, given him a push and received in his hand the bullet intended for General Panayotakos. The wound festered and the hand had to be amputated while Premier & War Minister suppressed riots up & down Attica and in certain Army garrisons...
...pools of Truth. But this year the groundhogs have deceived him, and the Vagabond awakes to find himself in a bitter world of snow, and snow-removers, and more snow. Sitting at his fire with a cheerful glass, he tries to forget, and fancies himself in ancient Attica where it is spring now and the Gods are smiling on humanity. Dinoysus, sitting at Zeus' table, looks down with special pleasure, for this is the time of the spring festival in his honor. Prancing horses and gleaming cars fill Athens as the rich thunder by in their burnished armor and waving...
...night before the Vagabond had lived again in Attica through Gulick's book, and walked in a shining white cloth over the Athenian hills one crystal spring morning down to the blue-girt Piraeus. Five o'clock that morning through the windows of the Waldorf he had seen dawn steal down Massachusetts Avenue like a great gray cat, tail between its legs...