Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement on why you did not hale them to court?", Commissioner Moss emphatically replied: "No ma'am!" *Last week the City Center itself put on a lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This Was a Man, which the Lord Chamberlain banned in England...
Thereby it suggests the rhythmic quality of Homer better than Chapman, better than Pope, and a great deal better than the King James prose of the Lang, Leaf & Myers translation. First lines...
...Wrath of Achilles. The Iliad has never been translated into English as successfully as the Odyssey, of which George Chapman in the 16th and William Morris in the 19th Century made accomplished versions. The Iliad has less narrative charm and less of the lyric graces that are easy for English poetry. Translators' English has seldom touched its humor and power...
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...AGNES R. CHAPMAN Hastings, Neb. ¶ TIME confesses itself be-dunced, called, gloated...