Word: charon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wrote stories about a yachting party near Hell. Producer Ned Jakobs thought that these stories deserve to be perpetuated on the stage, with song-&-dancing. That is the purpose of The Houseboat on the Styx, that and moneymaking. Adam, Barnum, Captain Kidd. Sherlock Holmes and Cleopatra; Mrs. Noah, Sappho, Charon, Josephine and Sir Walter Raleigh-all the Bangsian characters come on deck to sing somewhat Gilbertian songs and utter up-to-the-hour Times Squarese. Blanche Ring as Queen Elizabeth shouts, when someone offers her a drink: "Swine!" "No," is the answer, " 'sapplejack." Its first evening, The Houseboat...
...Harvard Classical Club will hold its second meeting of the year this evening at 8 o'clock in the Club Room of the Union. At the meeting several sections from Lucian's "Charon" begun at the club's first gathering, will be read from texts which will be furnished at the meeting...
Reading from Lucian will constitute the program at a meeting of the Harvard Classical Club to be held to night at 8 o'clock in the Club Room of the Union. The two principal selections which will be real are "De Somno", and the distance between Charon and obtain abie at the meeting...
...Apprentices of Charon," Robert Steed Dunn...
...learning this declares he will follow him and will trust him. The poets enter through the gate, which bears the onmious inscription, "Leave hope, ye who enter here," and came into a scene of suffering and lamentation. Passing through the first great crowd of moaning wretches, and crossing the Charon, they come among the souls that are suffering penance for original sin, and no other guilt. Thence they advance into a second circle, at the entrance to which stands Minos, who assigns to the spirits their proper places in Hell. Leaving Minos they continue along a rocky cliff, past which...